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Re:Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan by outlace on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:48AM (#20104262)
I’ve worked through the print book version of this twice and it is absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend the book. Looks like some draft chapters of the second edition are freely available, but the first edition was already fantastic.
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Re:Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan by RivieraKid on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:56PM (#20106422)
I just started reading the book today because Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis seems too theoretical and sometimes hard to parse. But this book seems too much of the opposite, there's almost no math...
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Re:Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan by joker3 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:17PM (#20116683)
The math is the easy part of statistics. What really marks the people who get it is that they understand the part that isn't math.
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Re:Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan by outlace on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:28PM (#20107631)
There’s math, you just have to keep reading. It starts out very conceptual. I think Gelman’s book will be a lot more approachable after McElreth.
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Re:Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan by ranc1d on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:26AM (#20113837)
2nd Edition can be got here:

https://xcelab.net/rm/sr2/

Use password from end of 2nd lecture on YouTube

https://youtu.be/XoVtOAN0htU?list=PLDcUM9US4XdNM4Edgs7weiyIg...

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