Programme

Day 1 (Monday) June 5th

Bayesian logic and statistical foundations

Time	Topic	Teacher(s)
8:30 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 9:45	Welcome greetings	Valentina Moro
9:45 – 10:45	From the Bayes’ Theorem to Bayesian Statistics	Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
10:45 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Bayes in my Mind: The applications of the Bayes Theorem in Epistemology, Cognitive Sciences, and Neuroscience	Massimiliano Badino
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00	The shield and the sword of Bayesian statistics: Priors and Occam’s razor	Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
15:00 – 16:00	Markov Chain Monte Carlo	Michele Scandola
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	The logic of learning from experience	Hykel Hosni

Day 2 (Tuesday) June 6th

Bayesian Linear model analysis with JASP and the BayesFactor package.

Time	Topic	Teacher(s)
9:00 – 10:00	Inferential Bayes and the Bayes Factor	Romano & Tosi
10:00 – 10:30	Introduction to JASP	Romano & Tosi
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Simple designs (t-tests). Theory and Practice (With JASP)	Romano & Tosi
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break + Poster Session
14:30 – 16:00	Factorial Designs (“ANOVA”). Theory and Practice (With JASP)	Romano & Tosi
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	The BayesFactor R package.	Romano & Tosi

Day 3 (Wednesday) June 7th

Bayesian Hierarchical Multilevel Models with the brms package.

Time	Topic	Teacher(s)
9:00 – 10:30	Introduction to Bayesian linear models Hands-on 2	Stefano Coretta
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 12:30	Model diagnostics Interactions and Group-level (random) effects Hands-on 2	Stefano Coretta
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break + Poster Session
14:30 – 16:00	Specifying priors Hands-on 3	Stefano Coretta
16:00 – 16:30	Break
16:30 – 18:00	Bayesian modelling Q&A	Stefano Coretta

Day 4 (Thursday) June 8th

Bayesian Design Analysis and Bayesian Robustness checks.

Time	Topic	Teacher(s)
9:00 – 10:30	Sample Size Planning – The Bayesian Way	Angelika Stefan
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Bayesian Robustness Checks	Angelika Stefan
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break + Poster Session
Social event!

Day 5 (Friday) June 7th

Creating your own Bayesian statistical analysis: the use of Stan in statistical analysis.

Time	Topic	Teacher(s)
9:00 – 10:30	Writing your own Bayesian Model in Stan (first part)	Michele Scandola Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30	Writing your own Bayesian Model in Stan (second part)	Michele Scandola Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break + Best Poster Prize
14:30 – 16:00	Writing your own Bayesian Model in Stan (third part)	Michele Scandola Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00	Hands-on workshop	Michele Scandola Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro
18:00 – 18:30	The bmscstan package: Bayesian Multilevel Single Case analysis	Michele Scandola Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro