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Statistical Rethinking
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Statistical Rethinking

by Richard McElreath
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
487 pages
16h 46m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Topic index

absolute effect, 296

aggregated binomial regression, 292

AIC, 189

Akaike weight, 198, 199

Akaike information criterion, 189

autocorrelation, of samples, 255

automatic relevance determination, 419

axis, 114

barplot, 203

Bayes factor, 192

Bayes' theorem, 36

Bayesian imputation, 424

Bayesian information criterion, 167, 192

Bayesian updating, 29

Bayesianism, 12

Bertrand's box paradox, 423

beta-binomial, 328, 347

bias-variance trade-off, 174

bias-variance tradeoff, see also overfitting

binomial distribution, 275

binomial regression, 291

Buridan's ass, 223

burn-in, 256

categorical, 323

categorical variable, 152

categorical variables, 120

Cauchy distribution, 249, 260

centering, 98, 99, 225, 230

Cholesky decomposition, 409

coeftab, 201

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ISBN: 9781482253481