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Re:Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] by zenburnmyface on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @03:19PM (#5451436)
If you are interested in the practical practice of Bayesian methods (and you love Python), check out our open-source project/book Bayesian Methods for Hackers:

https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

We aim to empower the non-mathematician with really cool tools and methods to solve otherwise very difficult problems. Plus it's all opensource, and every plot/diagram is reproducible and extendable.

Re:Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] by tmarthal on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:19PM (#5452085)
As an aside, I just want to thank you for making the project/book text available as iPython notebooks. I haven't seen a mathematical writeup as beautiful and interactive as the chapters that you've put out. I've only had time to go through a couple of them, but it really is a treat.

Also, I've learned so much more about how people use python to do analysis and all sorts of other things through ipynb files than reviewing traditional python libraries/code. I wish more people would publish using them.

Re:Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] by bobwaycott on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @09:08PM (#5452893)
Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you for one of the sweetest projects I've seen this year.
Re:Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics [pdf] by anymane on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:26PM (#5451796)
Your book seems very interesting. I await the other chapters eagerly