Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape

DATES: 7 - 11 October 2019 (5 sessions)
TIME: 09:00 - 11:00 (a total of 10 hours)
LOCATION: BCAM Seminar room

PROGRAMME:

First block:
- Introduction to GAMLSS
- The gamlss packages, algorithms and diagnostics.
- Practicals with R

Second block:
- Continuous distributions
- Discrete distributions
- Mixed distributions

Third block:
- Additive terms
- Model selection
- Centile Estimation

Fourth block:
- Case studies


PREREQUISITES:
Basic knowledge of Statistics, statistical inference and regression techniques, and basic knowledge of R programming language. Master, PhD students and researchers are encouraged to participate.


COURSE MATERIALS:
All course materials will be availiable at this link.


REFERENCES:

• Rigby RA, Stasinopoulos D (2005). "Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape." Applied Statistics, 54, 507-554.


• Rigby RA, Stasinopoulos DM (2006). "Using the Box-Cox t Distribution in GAMLSS to Model Skewness and Kurtosis." Statistical Modelling, 6, 209-229.


• Rigby RA, Stasinopoulos D (2004). "Smooth Centile Curves for Skew and Kurtotic data Modelled Using the Box-Cox Power Exponential Distribution". Statistics in Medicine, 23 (19): 3053-3076. doi:10.1002/sim.1861.


• Stasinopoulos D., Rigby, RA (2007). "Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R". Journal of Statistical Software, 23 (7). doi:10.18637/jss.v023.i07.


• Stasinopoulos D, Rigby RA, Heller GZ, Voudouris V, De Bastiani F (2017). "Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R", 1st Edition. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 9781138197909. A preprint old draft version.


• WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group (2006). "WHO Child Growth Standards: Methods and Development". World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.



 
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More information: https://www.gamlss.com/

*Registration is free, but mandatory before October 3rd.
To sign-up go to https://forms.gle/XwbZiL6g2tPLtCoc6 and fill the registration form.

Student grants are available. Please, let us know if you need support for travel and accommodation expenses in the previous form before September 8th.

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