Let us view the production of scientific knowledge as cooking food. There are different recipies around – some works well, some are difficult and takes time, and some we are not familiar with and would like to try out before preparing that great dinner to impress on friends and family. Science also has different recipies for integrating knowledge and making conclusions. One such recipie is Bayesian methods. These methods have been in the shadow of the dominating classical methods of statistics, but are receiving more attention in several fields of science. In some situations these methods are to prefer over classical ones. Isn’t this curios? Isn’t it odd that Bayesian methods only marginally, if all, are represented in statistical courses at some universities?
To meet and discuss the opportunities and challenges with Bayesian methods we are organising a mini-conference on Bayesian methods in Lund Thursday April 10 2014. The purpose of this half day conference is to bring together researchers at Lund University working with or interested in Bayesian methods.
We welcome everyone interested in learning more about this methods. If you cannot attend, there will be a summary posted on this blog. More information of the conference is found at http://www.lucs.lu.se/bayes-at-lund-2014/
/Ullrika and Rasmus
Ullrika
I would like to thank everyone that attended and contributed to the discussions. / Ullrika