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Can anyone here recommend a good reference (blog, e-book, etc.) for beginners in Bayesian statistical analysis?

• vitohuang 10y ago
  You can have look at this https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...
• dragandj 10y ago
  The only book accessible by beginners, while still dealing with real-world level analysis: https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Second/dp/0124058884/ https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Second/d...
• stared 10y ago
  Book: - Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms Textbook by David J. C. MacKay (free pdf: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/ http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/) Other things: - (the already mentioned http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/ http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-...) - https://github.com/markdregan/Bayesian-Modelling-in-Python https://github.com/markdregan/Bayesian-Modelling-in-Python (a practical introduction to PyMC3)
• kgwgk 10y ago
  Statistical Rethinking (the lectures are available on youtube): http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/ http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
• triplepoint217 10y ago
  Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for physical scientists by Phil Gregory is pretty good, particularly if you are some kind of scientist. source: I TA'd a course in Data analysis, primarily bayesian, that used that as the textbook.