14. Applications and Broader Impact: Latent Variables and Variational Inference

Draft chapter

This chapter collects the broader-impact discussion and readings that accompanied Part III in AM207 (Harvard, Fall 2021). It will be expanded into a full chapter.

14.1. Readings

Applications and Broader Impact

• We Don’t Have Enough Women in Clinical Trials — Why That’s a Problem

• Why Are Health Studies So White?

• Characterizing the Uncertainty of Climate Change Projections Using Hierarchical Models

• Groove Radio: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Personalized Playlist Generation

• Replication of Breast Cancer Susceptibility Loci in Whites and African Americans Using a Bayesian Approach