Topics include Bayesian updating, conjugate and reference priors, Bayesian point and interval estimates, Bayesian asymptotics and empirical Bayes methods.
Leonhard Held is a Full Professor of Biostatistics, Director of the Master’s Program in Biostatistics and Chair of the Center for Reproducible Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has published several books and numerous articles on statistical methodology, applied statistics and biomedical research and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Biostatistics and Medical Statistics.Daniel Sabanés Bové completed his PhD in Statistics at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Leonhard Held. He started his career as a biostatistician in oncology drug development at Hoffmann-La Roche in 2013, and has been a data scientist at Google since 2018.
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