What is this “effects” business?
I’ve got to figure out what people mean when they say “fixed effect” and “random effect”, because I’ve been confused about it for a year and I’ve been hearing it all the time lately. Bayesian Data...
View ArticleMCMC in Python: A random effects logistic regression example
I have had this idea for a while, to go through the examples from the OpenBUGS webpage and port them to PyMC, so that I can be sure I’m not going much slower than I could be, and so that people can...
View ArticleLaplace approximation in Python: another cool trick with PyMC3
I admit that I’ve been skeptical of the complete rewrite of PyMC that underlies version 3. It seemed to me motivated by an interest in using unproven new step methods that require knowing the...
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