The European Master in Bayesian Statistics and Decision Analysis
Message of the day
Welcome to all potential students of EuroBayes in Paris Dauphine!
We are
looking forward working with you during the first year of the EuroBayes
program in Paris. Please feel free to contact us for any item of
information concerning the program, the courses, the prerequisites or
living in Paris (check the Campus life link below for an entry via the
International Relations services of Paris Dauphine, it contains a
wealth of information!).
This will indeed be an exciting time as we are trying [with high expectations!] to make a coherent training structure for EuroBayes
students over the two years of a Master program from existing courses
that were primarily aimed at Applied Math students mostly interested in
Mathematical students. Particularly in the first year, you will thus
share most of those courses with students aiming at a different goal
and will have to find cohesion and stamina from the happy fews joining
the EuroBayes program.
as well as from the faculty, PhD students and postdocs active in
Bayesian Statistics and around! There is indeed a thriving Bayesian
community in Paris working on Bayesian inference (of course!) as well
as computational methods, nonparametrics and all kinds of applications
of Bayesian techniques. You should then not find yourselves short of
seminars, reading groups and interlocutors.
You may find that the local EuroBayes curriculum
is overloaded with Mathematical topics and missing in applications
and/or computing. This is not completely untrue, but we are currently
primarily catering to local students, whose background is quite
appropriate for those courses. In the event you fear that your own
background does not meet those requirements, please contact us or check
the program of one the other five universities participating in the EuroBayes program
(see links on the home page). The courses of the second year of the
Master are much more specialised in Bayesian Statistics and you should
thus not face difficulties in attending them, even though the expected
mathematical background is reasonably high.
Another
note is that
most first year courses will be provided in French, again for the
reason that they are joint with another program. Paris Dauphine is
aiming at increasing its offer of courses in English and the Math
department strives to include one English-speaking tutoring group in as
many courses as possible. Last year, I taught the exploratory
statistics course completely in English and we hope to have more
courses with this option next year.
Again, please do not hesitate to contact us and we are looking forward seeing you next in our EuroBayes program! Have a nice summer.
Christian Robert
Local coordinator