diff --git a/sa_aimsximperial2025/index.html b/sa_aimsximperial2025/index.html index 95364292a..0eedd39c8 100644 --- a/sa_aimsximperial2025/index.html +++ b/sa_aimsximperial2025/index.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Past short courses
24th - 28th March 2025
Location: AIMS Cape Town, South Africa
Organised by: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London and the Machine Learning and Global Health Network
One of the groundbreaking advances in machine learning research in the past decade is surrounding the emergence of increasingly sophisticated, robust, and easily usable probabilistic programming languages. These new tools, including Stan or numpyro, hide tedious calculations involving automatic differentiation and gradient-based optimization from the end-user, making modern statistical methods widely available to data scientists in Africa that wish to address some of the most urgent challenges on the continent, ranging from habitat degradation, air pollution, extreme weather events, disease outbreaks and population health in general.
This one-week course will cover how you can integrate modern statistical techniques with the Stan probabilistic programming language to effectively address a broad range of applications from epidemiological, genomic and spatial data. We hope this course will equip you with intelligence-driven statistical technologies to drive your own evidence-based discoveries in global health or other applications, and more broadly increase your fluency in artificial intelligence and modern statistics.
Practical real-world examples with applications in malaria modelling, HIV epidemiology, ecology, environmental health
Varied datasets including Spatial data, genomic data, epidemiological data
Stan templates and Python code for implementing the methods covered