[FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

[Roger Critchlow]

You could also look at Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking: A
Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan, a book, software package, and
youtube lectures.  McElreath is an anthropologist who studies the
development of social learning in primates, so naturally he teaches a
statistics course for natural and social scientists focused on getting data
to answer scientific questions.  The first two lectures explain why Bayes
and why an anthropologist is teaching statistics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVelCswXo4&list=PLDcUM9US4XdNM4Edgs7weiyIguLSToZRI

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On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:28 AM Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> You might also like Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise”. It’s
> almost non technical and has interesting examples of the use and non use of
> Bayesian reasoning from the house market collapse to evaluating baseball
> players.
>
> Ed
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> On Feb 3, 2019, at 12:03 AM, George Duncan <gtduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> At Friday's church service Nick asked about how one might learn the basics
> of Bayesian statistics. I said I would think about it, and so here are my
> conclusions.
>
> For historical and philosophical background: Read The Emergence of
> Probability by Ian Hacking
>
> For a systematic course: Take Coursera, Bayesian Statistics, a course from
> Duke University with a 7-day free trial.
>
> Also of course there are several reasonable texts on Bayesian Statistics.
>
> George Duncan
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