Preface
This book has several aspects that I want to let you know about up front. If you’re already comfortable with terminology and concepts such as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling, conjugate pairs, and posterior distributions, then this book is probably not for you. You already know a lot about those topics, and if you need more you know where to find it.
On the other hand, if you don’t feel quite at home with the purpose of random samples, R’s user interface, and why you might want to work with mean-corrected instead of with raw values, then it’s just possible that this book offers something that you might want to know about. Both this book and I assume that you have some background in statistical analysis—say, at the introductory college ...
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