Course overview
Predicting the unobserved has become an increasingly popular tool in statistics. It can provide a unifying framework to achieve many goals in statistical analysis - imputing missing data, predicting the future, predicting unobserved members of the population and what the impact of a particular treatment would be if it was administered. In this course students will build upon a core understanding of these specialist statistical areas to unify them with a central theory. In doing so, students will embed cutting edge research in assessing the quality of prediction and contemplate current challenges in the field.