I'm happy something talking about Statistical Rethinking has finally made it to the front page. I've tried and bounced a few times to raise awareness of this awesome course.
with implementations in CmdStan (calling Stan from Julia), Turing, Mamba, and DynamicHMC (which requires hand-coding the log-density function of posterior).
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.
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...
I'm happy something talking about Statistical Rethinking has finally made it to the front page. I've tried and bounced a few times to raise awareness of this awesome course.