Statistical Rethinking

A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN

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Richard McElreath: Statistical Rethinking (2020, Taylor & Francis Group)

594 pages

English language

Published March 1, 2020 by Taylor & Francis Group.

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978-0-429-64231-9
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If you read through this text you will get a great course in Bayesian statistics with lots of R code, many interesting asides, comparisons to frequentist methods and philosophical comments. I think I understand the Bayesian approach much better than I had before. In my limited experience, using this approach is still a lot of work, gives a near identical answer (since I've avoided p values for years anyway), and the principle advantage is that when the researcher/client tells you what they think your confidence intervals mean, they are right.

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