STAT 910Bayesian Statistics
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Statistics
STAT 910 as listed in the Winter 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
This is an in-depth and rigorous course on Bayesian methods for statistical analysis and inference. Topics include fundamentals of Bayesian reasoning: prior and posterior distributions, Bayesian decision theory; Bayesian point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, model selection, predictive distributions, large sample theory; and Bayesian approaches to topics such as regression, hierarchical models, high-dimensional problems, nonparametrics, latent variable modelling and computational techniques.
Prerequisites
None listed.
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Check it elsewhere for Winter 2026
- Graduate Calendar, Winter 2026The archived entry
- Requirements for Winter 2026Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Graduate Calendar
- Spring 2024
- Fall 2024
- Winter 2025
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2026 (shown here)
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2024 and earlier in the calendar archives