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
| Week ## | Meeting date | Reading | Lectures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week 01 | 25 January | Chapters 1, 2 and 3 | [1] <Science Before Statistics> <Slides> [2] <Garden of Forking Data> <Slides> |
| Week 02 | 08 February | Chapter 4 | [3] <Geocentric Models> <Slides> [4] <Categories and Curves> <Slides> |
| Week 03 | 22 February | Chapters 5 and 6 | [5] <Elemental Confounds> <Slides> [6] <Good and Bad Controls> <Slides> |
| Week 04 | 07 March | Chapters 7,8,9 | [7] <Overfitting> <Slides> [8] <MCMC> <Slides> |
| Week 05 | 21 March | Chapters 10 and 11 | [9] <Modeling Events> <Slides> [10] <Counts and Confounds> <Slides> |
| Week 06 | 04 April | Chapters 11 and 12 | [11] <Ordered Categories> <Slides> [12] <Multilevel Models> <Slides> |
| Week 07 | 18 April | Chapter 13 | [13] <Multilevel Adventures> <Slides> [14] <Correlated Features> <Slides> |
| Week 08 | 02 May | Chapter 14 | [15] <Social Networks> <Slides> [16] <Gaussian Processes> <Slides> |
| Week 09 | 16 May | Chapter 15 | [17] <Measurement> <Slides> [18] <Missing Data> <Slides> |
| Week 10 | 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.
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.