COURSE INFO PubH 8472 Spatial Biostatistics-
Spring 2009
Instructors: Sudipto Banerjee, A448 Mayo Building, 624-0624,
sudiptob@biostat.umn.edu, http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~sudiptob/;
Class time: Tuesday and Thursday 9:45am-11:00am in WDH 2120.
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm-5:30pm or by appointment.
Text Book: Banerjee, S., Carlin, B.P. and Gelfand, A.E. (2004). Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Software: R (www.r-project.org). We have this
software on our Unix system in the biostatistics division. We also will use the Bayesian software WinBUGS and GeoBUGS that are freely downloadable from www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/
Assessment:
Homework 40%
One in-class midterm 30% (March 12th)
Final Project 30%
About Homework: Homework is due in class.
Homework turned in after the time it is due will have 50% deducted.
You may only turn in late homework up until the next homework is
due, after that there will be no credit given.