John's notes on Statistical Rethinking

2020-09-29

John Jackson

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Here I have put together my lecture notes from the Statistical Rethinking book (second edition) by Professor Richard McElreath, which can be found here. The note files are split by chapters of the book. However, the note headings follow the lectures from Winter 2019 that are presented here on YouTube, and there are some slight divergences between the lectures and the chapters of the book - particularly later on.

Due to the computation involved in running the Markov chains for GLM and mixed effects models, the notes are split between 4 R markdown files:

1. Chapters 1-8 - Statistical_Rethinking_1_8.Rmd
2. Chapters 9-12 - Statistical_Rethinking_9_12.Rmd
3. Chapters 13 & 14 - Statistical_Rethinking_13_14.Rmd
4. Phylogenetic regression - Phylogenetic_regression.Rmd

These markdown files are also accompanied by their resultant html files - again to save on computation.

To run the markdown files yourself, you will need to have all of the following packages installed:

library(tidyverse)  
library(rmarkdown)
library(rmdformats)
library(gridExtra)
library(ggridges)
library(rstan) # Follow the instructions at https://mc-stan.org/users/interfaces/rstan for installation
library(rethinking)
library(dagitty)
require(MASS)
require(ellipse)
require(ape)

Happy Bayesian-ing :)

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