Lecture material:

• Gamlss-Introduction
• Diagnostics-Algorithm
• Distributions properties and the gamlss.family
• Continuous distributions defined on (-Infinity, +infinity)
• Continuous distributions defined on (0, infinity), and (0 1)
• Discrete distributions
• Mixed distributions
• Linear and smoothing additive terms
• Model Selection
• Centile estimation
• Practicals

Talk given in the 49th scientific meeting of the Italian statistical society

Short course in Milan, Italy, 22-25- January 2018

First day

• Introduction to GAMLSS
• The gamlss packages, algorithms and diagnostics.
• Practicals for all days

Second  day

• Continuous distributions
• Discrete distributions
• Mixed distributions

Third  day

• Additive terms
• Model selection
• Centile Estimation

Fourth day

• case study

Short course in Armenia, Colombia, 6-7- Aug 2015

1. Introduction to GAMLSS
2. The gamlss packages, diagnostics and algorithms
3. A simple example using the gamlss packages
4. Distributions
5. Additive terms and centile estimation

Short course in Campina Grande, Brazil, 22-23-24 Jul 2013

1. Introduction to GAMLSS
2. The gamlss package 
   
3. Continuous distributions
4. Discrete distributions
5. Smoothing
6. Centile estimation
7. The R-script used :

The following are past short courses:

• Short Course on Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape. Department of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), University of Essex (UoE).
• 1) The talk given by Mikis Stasinopoulos
• 2) The talk given by Andy Mayr
• The following notes are from the short course given in Cordoba, Argentina during the X CLATSE (Decimo Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociedades de Estadistica) 16-19 October 2012.

1. Introduction
2. Continuous Distributions,
3. Discrete distributions,
4. gamlss packages,
5. Smoothing and
6. Centile Estimation.

• A short course on GAMLSS  (part of  the MSc course in biostatistics) at the Medical School of the University of Athens  (1, 3 and 7 of June 2010). The notes for the Athens short course can be downloaded here (12 MB) 

• Introduction To Modern Smoothing Methods: GAMLSS and P-Splines In Action. Monday 30th November – Wednesday 2nd December 2009 Presenters: Mikis Stasinopoulos, Paul Eilers & Robert Rigby. The notes from the Lancaster short course can be downloaded here 

• IWSM 2008: one day short course (Sunday July 6).

• Macquarie University (Sydney-Austalia): one day short course on GAMLSS (Monday 22 September 2008).
• Short course on GAMLSS University of Palermo, May 2007.
• Short course on GAMLSS  given at Utrecht University, June 2006.