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Building the book "Statistical Rethinking" by Solomon Kurtz in Docker

kurtz-rethinking bookdown This book was written by Solomon Kurtz which code lives here. It is a beautiful book on Bayesian regression in R using the brms package. Based on the book “Statistical Rethinking” by Richard McElreath, a Bayesian Course with examples in R and Stan. Bookdown details Book version 1.0.1. See index.Rmd. R-3.6.3 RStudio 1.2.5042 Most packages MRAN dated on 2019-06-12. Other packages dated at later dates for smnoother book building.

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Calculate economic risk with regression using Python by Matteo Niccoli

Another reproducible example of regression using Python to calculate economic risk. By Matteo Niccoli (2017).

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Multiple Regression in Engineering Applications by Marco Rizk

Great article. And also an eye opener, specially, for those interested in correlations. I hope you publish your scripts, data and manuscript, soon for reproducibility purposes, and the benefit of the petroleum engineering community.

Keywords: linear regression, engineering, Alternating Conditional Expectations, algorithms, transformations

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Starting Bayesian with Stan

Starting Bayesian #Machinelearning with #stan and #rstats. Surprised by the fact that model recipes written in R and Stan are compiled to C++ using whatever number of cores your machine has.

  • Correction: Bayesian machine learning -> Probabilistic Machine Learning