Statistical Rethinking [video]

Re:Statistical Rethinking [video] by ccosm on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:13AM (#29780936)

The book for this course is a fantastic practical introduction to Bayesian statistical modeling. If you've ever been curious about probabilistic programming give it a shot.

Also if you're rusty in probability and worried about prerequisites, Harvard's Stat110 can serve as a very good foundation (book and lectures are free online).

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Re:Statistical Rethinking [video] by laplacesdemon48 on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:25PM (#29783326)

For anyone looking for a refresher, I highly recommend this: https://bookdown.org/probability/beta/

This is actually co-written/edited by Joe Blitzstein, who teaches Harvard's Stat110. What originally sold me on taking a look is this snippet from the foreword:

"This book is primarily a teaching tool, and thus we are not very concerned with proofs unless they promote understanding...There are no Statistics or linear algebra prerequisites."

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Re:Statistical Rethinking [video] by iamcreasy on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:51AM (#29781297)

Yes. I've read the first half of the book and it can be read without any deep statistical inference knowledge at all. But it is important to know about linear regression.

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