[FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

[Barry MacKichan]

Isn’t that what Friday mornings are about?

--Barry (Bonzo)

On 4 Feb 2019, at 15:48, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Thanks, everybody, for these suggestions.
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> I should be able to manage extracting data from primates, since that 
> is what my phd was in.
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Roger 
> Critchlow
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2019 8:24 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics
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> 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.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVelCswXo4 
> <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 
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> 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.
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> On Feb 3, 2019, at 12:03 AM, George Duncan <gtduncan at gmail.com 
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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.
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> For historical and philosophical background: Read The Emergence of 
> Probability by Ian Hacking
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> For a systematic course: Take Coursera, Bayesian Statistics, a course 
> from Duke University with a 7-day free trial.
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> Also of course there are several reasonable texts on Bayesian 
> Statistics.
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> George Duncan
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> Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
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> "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It 
> may then be a valuable delusion."
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> From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn.
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> "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest 
> power." Joanna Macy.
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