Statistical Rethinking colearning 2024
Third round of Statistical Rethinking colearning
Previous:
- 2023 Statistical Rethinking colearning
- 2022 Statistical Rethinking colearning
- 2019 Statistical Rethinking solo-learning
Schedule
Lectures
| Meeting date | Reading | Lectures |
|---|---|---|
| 25 January | Chapters 1, 2 and 3 | [1] <Science Before Statistics> <Slides> [2] <Garden of Forking Data> <Slides> |
| 08 February | Chapter 4 | [3] <Geocentric Models> <Slides> [4] <Categories and Curves> <Slides> |
| 22 February | Chapters 5 and 6 | [5] <Elemental Confounds> <Slides> [6] <Good and Bad Controls> <Slides> |
| 07 March | Chapters 7,8,9 | [7] <Overfitting> <Slides> [8] <MCMC> <Slides> |
| 21 March | Chapters 10 and 11 | [9] <Modeling Events> <Slides> [10] <Counts and Confounds> <Slides> |
| 04 April | Chapters 11 and 12 | [11] <Ordered Categories> <Slides> [12] <Multilevel Models> <Slides> |
| 18 April | Chapter 13 | [13] <Multilevel Adventures> <Slides> [14] <Correlated Features> <Slides> |
| 02 May | Chapter 14 | [15] <Social Networks> <Slides> [16] <Gaussian Processes> <Slides> |
| 16 May | Chapter 15 | [17] <Measurement> <Slides> [18] <Missing Data> <Slides> |
| 30 May | Chapters 16 and 17 | [19] <Generalized Linear Madness> <Slides> [20] <Horoscopes> <Slides> |
Homework
| Meeting date | Homework | Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 February | Homework 1 | Solutions |
| 15 February | Homework 2 | Solutions |
| 29 February | Homework 3 | Solutions |
| 14 March | Homework 4 | Solutions |
| 28 March | Homework 5 | Solutions |
| 11 April | Homework 6 | Solutions |
| 25 April | Homework 7 | Solutions |
| 9 May | Homework 8 | Solutions |
| 23 May | Homework 9 | Solutions |
Resources
Additional material using other packages or languages
- Original R: https://github.com/rmcelreath/rethinking/
- R + Tidyverse + ggplot2 + brms: https://bookdown.org/content/4857/
- Python and PyMC3: https://github.com/pymc-devs/resources/tree/master/Rethinking_2
- Julia and Turing: https://github.com/StatisticalRethinkingJulia and https://github.com/StatisticalRethinkingJulia/TuringModels.jl
See Richard’s comments about these here: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024#coding
2023 course:
- Lectures: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023#calendar--topical-outline
- Homework: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023/tree/main/homework
2022 course:
- Lectures: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022#calendar--topical-outline
- Homework: https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022/tree/main/homework
Also, Alec’s notes and solutions of the 2019 material: https://github.com/robitalec/statistical-rethinking and https://www.statistical-rethinking.robitalec.ca/
Installation
Package specific install instructions.
Rethinking
Stan
Targets
V8, needed for the dagitty package
Community
Our colearning group is sponsored by Zulip (an open-source modern team chat app designed to keep both live and asynchronous conversations organized) and we are grateful for their support.
Get in touch to join the colearning group.
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Code of Conduct
Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.