The book that hasn't left my desk for the entirety of my PhD and beyond! #StatisticalRethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social is a must for any scientist, especially for a FIELD ecologist, yes, a #field #ecologist if you want to try to many any sense imout of your observations!
New lecture recordings for the new year!
#databs #rstats #python #statisticalRethinking
Finally making my way through Ch. 5 of #StatisticalRethinking after a long, long break.
This is definitely too ambitious of a project for me, but I'd like to learn to use RMarkdown to compile some research/scripting notes which marries the content from @/rlmcelreath's #StatisticalRethinking with Wikle, Zammit-Mangion and Cressie's #SpatioTemporalStatisticsWithR.
I've been dragging so much ass on getting through Ch 4 of #StatisticalRethinking. I could say that my fever held me up a couple days, but I don't think that's being 89% honest.
I suspect when I got back to Kruschke and Hobbs & Hooten (after finishing #StatisticalRethinking, of course), they'll make a lot more sense in the "why did I find this so difficult before?" kind of way.
On the other hand, maybe me-from-2-years-ago lacked the mathematical maturity to appreciate how simple McElreath has made learning how to *apply* these statistical procedures. #StatisticalRethinking
I'm really enjoying Chapter 4 of #StatisticalRethinking. I really could have used the book in my life like 2 years ago when I was trying to make sense of Kruschke's text on #BayesianDataAnalysis or Hobbs & Hooten's book on #BayesianModels.
I'm doing some SERIOUS annotating of McElreath's code as I go through #StatisticalRethinking. Not that he doesn't provide excellent commentary (he does). These are just to remind me what he/I am doing.
This line spoke to me: "Remember, we're not launching rockets or calibrating atom smashers, so fetishizing precision to the 5th decimal place will not improve your science."
#StatisticalRethinking
"No branch of applied mathematics has unfettered access to reality, because math is not discovered, like the proton. Instead, it is invented, like the shovel."
#StatisticalRethinking
on monday in my MCMC #StatisticalRethinking class: will queen Margrethe quell the Faroese riots? how will she deal with the kbh uprising?
