Home page for the book, "Bayesian Data Analysis"

This is the home page for the book, Bayesian Data Analysis, by Andrew Gelman, John Carlin, Hal Stern, David Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald Rubin.

Here is the book in pdf form, available for download for non-commercial purposes.

Teaching Bayesian data analysis

Aki Vehtari's course material, including video lectures, slides, and his notes for most of the chapters.
77 best lines from my course
A student's lecture notes
An article on teaching Bayesian applied statistics to students in social science and public health
An article with some class-participation demonstrations for decision theory and Bayesian statistics
Our research blog (useful for discussion topics)

Code for some of the examples in the book

Software

Stan (for posterior simulations)
GPStuff (for fitting Gaussian processes; we used it to fit the birthday data shown on the book cover)
Appendix C from the third edition of Bayesian Data Analysis. This appendix has an extended example of the use of Stan and R.

Other

Datasets for most of the examples from the book
Solutions to some of the exercises in the third, second, and first editions.
Reviews from prepublication, first edition, and second edition.
Table of contents and index.
Errata for third edition of the book. Also errata for the second edition and for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth printings of the first edition.

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