Lambert B A Student’s Guide to Bayesian Statistics 2018 torrent

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Contents
Online resources
Acknowledgements
About the Author
How Best to use this Book
An Introduction to Bayesian Inference
The Subjective Worlds of Frequentist and Bayesian Statistics
Probability – The Nuts and Bolts of Bayesian Inference
Understanding the Bayesian Formula
Likelihoods
Priors
The Devil is in the Denominator
The Posterior – The Goal of Bayesian Inference
Analytic Bayesian Methods
An Introduction to Distributions for the Mathematically Uninclined
Conjugate priors
Evaluation of model fit and hypothesis testing
Making Bayesian analysis objective?
A practical guide to doing real-life Bayesian analysis: computational Bayes
Leaving conjugates behind: Markov chain Monte Carlo
Random Walk Metropolis
Gibbs sampling
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Stan
Hierarchical models and regression
Hierarchical models
Linear regression models
Generalised linear models and other animals
References
Index