[HN Gopher] Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)
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Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)
Author : lnyan
Score : 55 points
Date : 2024-11-16 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29956390 - Jan 2022 (124
| comments)
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| _Statistical Rethinking [video]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29780550 - Jan 2022 (10
| comments)
|
| _Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course Using R and Stan_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102950 - June 2019 (14
| comments)
| haberman wrote:
| I'm excited to see the online lecture videos. I previously bought
| the book from a recommendation I saw online, and have been
| working through the chapters and doing the exercises in self-
| study. But I stalled a bit as some of the later chapters were
| harder to follow. I hope that the video lectures will help.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| The videos are amazing. I watched the first season, and gave a
| glance at the second or third iteration, which somehow seem
| even better. He added one clutch visualization which really
| made a concept click for me.
|
| I thought the book was only so-so, but required to support the
| nuances of what he discussed in class.
| nextos wrote:
| It's a great book, but my personal opinion is that it would have
| benefited from an editor that recommended some small changes. The
| previous edition had a TOC which was barely usable because all
| funny jokes in chapter names like "8 Conditional Manatees".
| Besides, there were too many jokes embedded in some sections,
| which made them difficult to follow. I think some of these issues
| are getting addressed in the current edition.
|
| Nonetheless, the book is very well written and all figures and
| examples show great attention to detail. I found Gelman et al
| _Regression and Other Stories_ better for teaching newcomers, and
| surprisingly insightful. _Statistical Rethinking_ is a good
| choice for a second course, but perhaps too informal at that
| stage.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| What are the prerequisites for the topics covered in this book?
| I feel like the lecture list is hard to understand, maybe sort
| of like the book's TOC.
| rscho wrote:
| Honestly, I think there are very little prerequisites. I'm an
| MD dabbling into stats and found the book very well made as
| well as understandable.
| rscho wrote:
| I second that. The TOC is unusable. However, it's probably
| aligned with the author's intention of it being a course and
| not a reference book.
| These335 wrote:
| I tried to follow along with the textbook before but really
| struggled with the practical side - R is just another world in
| terms of dependency management and organisation/documentation
| (compared to python at least). The book had me install some
| version of a library that was since unsupported. So I thought I
| would be a nerd and do everything in python instead, but there I
| had other problems installing pymc. After some hours of failing I
| just gave up. Can anyone speak to the state of the dependencies
| in this edition? Has everything been updated? Versions listed?
| Would love to give this another shot
| wanderingmind wrote:
| For those looking for pymc and the python implementation of
| this book, here are the jupyter notebooks for the 2022 edition
| https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources/tree/main/Rethin...
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