Statistical Rethinking (2nd ed.)

Winner of the 2024 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data. Reflecting the need for scripting in today's model-based statistics, the book pushes you to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that you understand enough of the details to make reasonable