Statistical rethinking : (Record no. 42647)
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| fixed length control field | 03409 a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781482253443 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519.542 |
| Item number | McE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McElreath, Richard |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Statistical rethinking : |
| Remainder of title | a bayesian course with examples in R and Stan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | CRC Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2016 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Boca Raton |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii,469p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Texts in statistical science series Ed. by Francesca Dominici & Others |
| 9 (RLIN) | 46800 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Preface xi<br/>Audience xi<br/>Teaching strategy xii<br/>How to use this book xii<br/>Installing the rethinking R package xvi<br/>Acknowledgments xvi<br/>Chapter 1. The Golem of Prague 1<br/>Statistical golems 1<br/>Statistical rethinking 4<br/>Three tools for golem engineering 10<br/>Summary 16<br/>Chapter 2. Small Worlds and Large Worlds 19<br/>The garden of forking data 20<br/>Building a model 28<br/>Components of the model 32<br/>Making the model go 37<br/>Summary 45<br/>Practice 45<br/>Chapter 3. Sampling the Imaginary 49<br/>Sampling from a grid-approximate posterior 52<br/>Sampling to summarize 53<br/>Sampling to simulate prediction 61<br/>Summary 68<br/>Practice 69<br/>Chapter 4. Linear Models 71<br/>Why normal distributions are normal 72<br/>A language for describing models 77<br/>A Gaussian model of height 78<br/>Adding a predictor 92<br/>Polynomial regression 110<br/>Summary 115<br/>Practice 115<br/>Chapter 5. Multivariate Linear Models 119<br/>Spurious association 121<br/>Masked relationship 135<br/>When adding variables hurts 141<br/>Categorical variables 152<br/>Ordinary least squares and 1m 159<br/>Summary 162<br/>Practice 162<br/>Chapter 6. Overfitting, Regularization, and Information Criteria 165<br/>The problem with parameters 167<br/>Information theory and model performance 174<br/>Regularization 186<br/>Information criteria 188<br/>Using information criteria 195<br/>Summary 205<br/>Practice 205<br/>Chapter 7. Interactions 209<br/>Building an interaction 211<br/>Symmetry of the linear interaction 223<br/>Continuous interactions 225<br/>Interactions in design formulas 235<br/>Summary 236<br/>Practice 236<br/>Chapter 8. Markov Chain Monte Carlo 241<br/>Good King Markov and His island kingdom 242<br/>Markov chain Monte Carlo 245<br/>Easy HMC: map2stan 247<br/>Care and feeding of your Markov chain 255<br/>Summary 263<br/>Practice 263<br/>Chapter 9. Big Entropy and the Generalized Linear Model 267<br/>Maximum entropy 268<br/>Generalized linear models 280<br/>Maximum entropy priors 288<br/>Summary 289<br/>Chapter 10. Counting and Classification 291<br/>Binomial regression 292<br/>Poisson regression 311<br/>Other count regressions 322<br/>Summary 328<br/>Practice 329<br/>Chapter 11. Monsters and Mixtures 331<br/>Ordered categorical outcomes 331<br/>Zero-inflated outcomes 342<br/>Over-dispersed outcomes 346<br/>Summary , 351<br/>Practice 352<br/>Chapter 12. Multilevel Models 355<br/>Example: Multilevel tadpoles 357<br/>Varying effects and the under fitting/overfitting trade-off 364<br/>More than one type of cluster 370<br/>Multilevel posterior predictions 376<br/>Summary 384<br/>Practice 384<br/>Chapter 13. Adventures in Covariance 387<br/>Varying slopes by construction 389<br/>Example: Admission decisions and gender 398<br/>Example: Cross-classified chimpanzees with varying slopes 403<br/>Continuous categories and the Gaussian process 410<br/>Summary 419<br/>Practice 419<br/>Chapter 14. Missing Data and Other Opportunities 423<br/>Measurement error 424<br/>Missing data 431<br/>Summary 439<br/>Practice 439<br/>Chapter 15. Horoscopes 441<br/>Endnotes 445<br/>Bibliography 457<br/>Citation index 465<br/>Topic index 467<br/> |
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| 9 (RLIN) | 46798 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
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| Topic | FT |
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