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Instructions for Using BayesLabs
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This repository contains a series of laboratory exercises designed to support
an introductory course in Bayesian modeling for graduate students, post-docs,
faculty, and research scientists.
The material can be adapted for use in a 10-day intensive workshop format
or a more traditional semester-long course.
Examples are drawn from social science and ecology.
The materials were developed by N.
Thompson Hobbs, Mevin B.
Hooten, Christian Che-Castaldo, Mary Collins, Kiona Ogle, and Maria Uriarte
with support from the National Science Foundation (awards DBI 1052875 and
DEB1145200).
The labs were designed to compliment reading and lectures based on Hobbs,
N.
T., and M.
B.
Hooten.
2015.
Bayesian models: a statistical primer for ecologists.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
(Table 1).
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answers.
Using these switches is explained in the R markdown files.
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We ask that the logo acknowledging NSF support remain unchanged by users.
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Laboratory exercises supporting an introductory course in Bayesian modeling.
Readings are chapters from Hobbs and Hooten 2015.
Exercises are arranged with introductory topics at the top of the table
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Topics and challenges
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Rules of probability.
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Probability distributions.
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Moment matching.
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Likelihood functions.
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