There will be no class March 19 or March 24.

Updated Schedule of Topics

Class 1, Jan 13: Introduction: Bayesian statistics applied to problem of combining models for climate change.
Class 2, Jan 15: Bayesian statistics and climate change (contd.)
Class 3, Jan 20: Bayesian statistics in climate change (contd.)
Class 4, Jan 27: Bayesian statistics in climate change (concluded); introduction to environmental epidemiology; the NMMAPS project.
Class 5, Jan 29: Environmental epidemiology (contd.)
Class 6, Feb 3: Environmental epidemiology (contd.)
Class 7, Feb 5: Environmental epidemiology (concluded)
Class 8, Feb 10: Detection and attribution in climatology
Class 9, Feb 12: Detection and attribution in climatology (contd.)
Class 10, Feb 17: Spatial statistics
Class 11, Feb 19: Spatial statistics
Class 12, Feb 24: Spatial statistics
Class 13, Feb 26: Spatial statistics
Class 14, Mar 3: Spatial statistics; computation
Class 15, Mar 5: Spatial statistics; nonstationary models
Class 16, Mar 17: Network design
Class 17, Mar 26: Network design
Class 18, Mar 31: Spatial-temporal models
Class 19, Apr 2: Spatial-temporal models
Class 20, Apr 7: Detection and attribution in climatology
Class 21, Apr 9: Detection and attribution in climatology
Class 22, Apr 14: Trends in climatic time series
Class 23, Apr 16: Trends in climatic time series
Class 24, Apr 21: Extreme values
Class 25, Apr 23: Extreme values
TBA: Student presentations
TBA: Student presentations