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- ISBN-13: 978-1119246879
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The Bayesian Way offers a basic introduction to statistics that emphasizes the Bayesian approach and is designed for use by those studying professional disciplines like engineering and economics. In addition to the Bayesian approach, the author includes the most common techniques of the frequentist approach. Throughout the text, the author covers statistics from a basic to a professional working level along with a practical understanding of the matter at hand.
table of contents:
Part I Foundations 7
2 Data 9
3 Multivariate Data 31
4 Set Theory and Combinatorics 51
5 Probability 71
6 Bayes’ Theorem 107
7 Stochastic Variables on ℝ 137
8 Stochastic Variables II 171
9 Discrete Distributions 197
10 Continuous Distributions 225
Part II Inference 267
11 Introduction 269
12 Bayes’ Theorem for Distributions 279
13 Bayes’ Theorem with Hyperparameters 299
14 Bayesian Hypothesis Testing 329
15 Estimates 351
16 Frequentist Inference 371
17 Linear Regression 389
A Appendix 405
B Solutions to Exercises 423
C Tables 489
Index 497