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Thanks for your comment! Typically people have chosen one book, enjoyed it to some extent, and praise it, but are not well posed to comment on comparative adva

Thanks for your comment! Typically people have chosen one book, enjoyed it to some extent, and praise it, but are not well posed to comment on comparative advantages of each book; at most they have skimmed the rest. You on the other hand have made a sizable time and effort (and possibly money?) investment on writing a book, and you stated that you made that decision after identifying the gap, so I assume that you have a very grounded opinion on the differences / points of view / strengths and weaknesses of each of those books? It would be great if you could expand a little bit more about each of them.

canyon289 3y ago
Thank you for asking. I find this stuff super interesting. I write about it on my blog https://ravinkumar.com/ https://ravinkumar.com/ and here's a video for the most common question I get about bayes vs frequentist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSPfzYs4yY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSPfzYs4yY For recommendations here's my suggestions split by persona * I want a PHD in statistics or to write novel research - Go read BDA3 cover to cover. Gelman etal are amazing, and amazingly brilliant. The book is dense though, even after years of experience I need to now read chapters 2 or 3 times and write out proofs * I want have a smooth on ramp into Bayesian stats with lots of code and beautiful writing. I also like video lectures and undergraduate college courses - Statistical Rethinking. As noted below Richard does a wonderful job explaining these concepts with metaphors like golems, interspersing it with this experience as an anthropologist, and using his teaching experience to write well structured introduction into Bayesian stats. This book does assume you understand basic statistics and probability theory. * I want a great comparison of Bayesian vs Frequentist stats- This book covers both topics well, compares them fairly, and has all the proofs to back things up https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Advanced-Statistical-Methods/Westfall-Henning/p/book/9781466512108 https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Advanced-Statistical... * I'm a programmer type person that likes hands on "build from scratch" using code - Allen Downey's think bayes builds up bayes theorem from Numpy arrays. He's also a brilliant instructors * I want to read about the history and people and politics - Bernoulli's fallacy, The Theory That Would Not Die:, and Probably Overthinking it are all "non mathy" great armchair readings https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bernoullis-fallacy/9780231199957 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bernoullis-fallacy/97802311999... https://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/0300188226 https://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/03001882... https://www.allendowney.com/blog/ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/ * Im an applied practitioner that is focusing more on my specific problem and I need to use the latest PPLs and code to get it done - This is my book. I had to make estimations in SpaceX supply chain with some quick deadlines and I didn't have time to take an undergrad course. I also needed my code to be robust, testable, and scalable. I didn't find that other books provided this so that's why I wrote this with CRC and Osvaldo. Osvaldo and I are heavy contributors to PyMC, ArviZ, Preliz and other libraries so naturally we take a code first approach. https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html * (Shameless self promotion) Im a professional, I need to learn fast, and my company will pay for training - For this specific niche me and other Bayesian colleagues created an online course designed specifically for professionals. Yes it's expensive so let me plainly state no one at any point needs to spend any money to learn Bayesian stats. That being said hundreds of people have purchased this course and the feedback we've gotten on this course has been quite positive. So I want to underscore before Hacker news rips me apart. No one is being forced to buy this, if you want this style course here it is, if you don't there's many many ways to learn Bayesian stats. https://www.intuitivebayes.com/ https://www.intuitivebayes.com/ You can sign up for the Gaussian Process course for free if you'd like https://www.intuitivebayes.com/gaussian-processes https://www.intuitivebayes.com/gaussian-processes As you can tell I'm very fascinated by generative modeling. I find it fun to think about. I also frankly find it lucrative. It's helped me job hop across some pretty cool companies and get through the Google interview. The combination of strong programming skillset with applied generative mathematics is only heating up so I feel lucky to have chanced upon it, and also thankful that many others before me put great code and reading material out there so I could learn myself.
- rramadass 3y ago
  Thank you very much!

canyon289 3y ago

Thank you for asking. I find this stuff super interesting. I write about it on my blog https://ravinkumar.com/ https://ravinkumar.com/ and here's a video for the most common question I get about bayes vs frequentist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSPfzYs4yY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSPfzYs4yY For recommendations here's my suggestions split by persona * I want a PHD in statistics or to write novel research - Go read BDA3 cover to cover. Gelman etal are amazing, and amazingly brilliant. The book is dense though, even after years of experience I need to now read chapters 2 or 3 times and write out proofs * I want have a smooth on ramp into Bayesian stats with lots of code and beautiful writing. I also like video lectures and undergraduate college courses - Statistical Rethinking. As noted below Richard does a wonderful job explaining these concepts with metaphors like golems, interspersing it with this experience as an anthropologist, and using his teaching experience to write well structured introduction into Bayesian stats. This book does assume you understand basic statistics and probability theory. * I want a great comparison of Bayesian vs Frequentist stats- This book covers both topics well, compares them fairly, and has all the proofs to back things up https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Advanced-Statistical-Methods/Westfall-Henning/p/book/9781466512108 https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-Advanced-Statistical... * I'm a programmer type person that likes hands on "build from scratch" using code - Allen Downey's think bayes builds up bayes theorem from Numpy arrays. He's also a brilliant instructors * I want to read about the history and people and politics - Bernoulli's fallacy, The Theory That Would Not Die:, and Probably Overthinking it are all "non mathy" great armchair readings https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bernoullis-fallacy/9780231199957 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bernoullis-fallacy/97802311999... https://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/0300188226 https://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/03001882... https://www.allendowney.com/blog/ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/ * Im an applied practitioner that is focusing more on my specific problem and I need to use the latest PPLs and code to get it done - This is my book. I had to make estimations in SpaceX supply chain with some quick deadlines and I didn't have time to take an undergrad course. I also needed my code to be robust, testable, and scalable. I didn't find that other books provided this so that's why I wrote this with CRC and Osvaldo. Osvaldo and I are heavy contributors to PyMC, ArviZ, Preliz and other libraries so naturally we take a code first approach. https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html * (Shameless self promotion) Im a professional, I need to learn fast, and my company will pay for training - For this specific niche me and other Bayesian colleagues created an online course designed specifically for professionals. Yes it's expensive so let me plainly state no one at any point needs to spend any money to learn Bayesian stats. That being said hundreds of people have purchased this course and the feedback we've gotten on this course has been quite positive. So I want to underscore before Hacker news rips me apart. No one is being forced to buy this, if you want this style course here it is, if you don't there's many many ways to learn Bayesian stats. https://www.intuitivebayes.com/ https://www.intuitivebayes.com/ You can sign up for the Gaussian Process course for free if you'd like https://www.intuitivebayes.com/gaussian-processes https://www.intuitivebayes.com/gaussian-processes As you can tell I'm very fascinated by generative modeling. I find it fun to think about. I also frankly find it lucrative. It's helped me job hop across some pretty cool companies and get through the Google interview. The combination of strong programming skillset with applied generative mathematics is only heating up so I feel lucky to have chanced upon it, and also thankful that many others before me put great code and reading material out there so I could learn myself.

rramadass 3y ago
Thank you very much!