Richard McElreath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolo

Statistical Rethinking

A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan, Second Edition builds knowledge/confidence in statistical modeling. Pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations (usually automated.) Unique, computational approach.

Produktdetails

• Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 182mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1440g
• ISBN-13: 9780367139919
• ISBN-10: 036713991X
• Artikelnr.: 58761272

Autorenporträt

Richard McElreath studies human evolutionary ecology and is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He has published extensively on the mathematical theory and statistical analysis of social behavior, including his first book (with Robert Boyd), Mathematical Models of Social Evolution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Golem of Prague. 2. Small Worlds and Large Worlds. Chapter 3.
Sampling the Imaginary. 4. Geocentric Models. 5. The Many Variables & The
Spurious Waffles. 6. The Haunted DAG & The Causal Terror. 7. Ulysses'
Compass. 8. Conditional Manatees. 8. Conditional Manatees. 9. Markov Chain
Monte Carlo. 10. Big Entropy and the Generalized Linear Model. 11. God
Spiked the Integers. 12. Monsters and Mixtures. 13. Models With Memory. 14.
Adventures in Covariance. 15. Missing Data and Other Opportunities. 16.
Generalized Linear Madness. 17. Horoscopes.