Aims of the workshop

• To make participants familiar with R for statistical analysis,
• To introduce participants to the use of Bayesian methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and their application in OpenBUGS
• To demonstrate the use of OpenBUGS from R.

Audience

About 30 particpants, viz. scientists from various institutes in India, the UK and Nigeria, epidemiologists and medical professionals, researchers, postgraduate students.

Faculty

• Andrew Thomas, Chief developer of OpenBUGS, CREEM School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
• Olli Saarela, Researcher, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland
• Sangita Kulathinal, Senior scientist, INSEED, Nashik, and Adjunct Professor of statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Bijoy Joseph, Indic Society for Education and Development, Nashik

Host

Department of Statistics, St. Thomas College,
Arunapuram P.O, Pala,
Kottayam, Kerala - 686 574, India.

Organiser

The Indic Society for Education and Development,
1, Swami Enterprises Complex,
Tigrania road, Tapovan Bridge,
Nashik - 422 011, Maharashtra, India.