November 2010
Beginner to intermediate
672 pages
19h 28m
English
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Chapter 23
Tools in the Trunk
Contents
23.1 Reporting a Bayesian Analysis
23.1.1 Essential Points
23.1.2 Optional Points
23.1.3 Helpful Points
23.2 MCMC Burn-in and Thinning
23.3 Functions for Approximating Highest Density Intervals
23.3.1 R Code for Computing HDI of a Grid Approximation
23.3.2 R Code for Computing HDI of an MCMC Sample
23.3.4 R Code for Computing HDI of a Function
23.4 Reparameterization of Probability Distributions
23.4.1 Examples
23.4.2 Reparameterization of Two Parameters
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