Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences
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It provides an introduction to Bayesian methods, specifically tailored for students of the social sciences. Includes detailed definitions of key Bayesian ideas, assuming little background knowledge. Each chapter contains graded exercises to help further the student s understanding of the methods and applications.
Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This book provides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. It contains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, and economics, exercises in all chapters, and detailed descriptions of all the key concepts, without assuming any background in statistics beyond a first course. It features examples of how to implement the methods using WinBUGS the most widely used Bayesian analysis software in the world and R an open source statistical software. The book is supported by a Website featuring WinBUGS and R code, and data sets.
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