Getting started with Bayesian statistics using Stan and Python

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• Bob Carpenter. 2023. Getting started with Bayesian statistics using Stan and Python.

This repo contains the source text, code, and data files for an introduction to

• Bayesian statistics and probability theory,

• the Stan probabilistic programming language,

• the CmdStanPy interface to Stan, with

• the Python libraries numpy, pandas, and plotnine.

Building the case study

HTML format

From the command line interface, you can change directory to the top-level directory of the repository and invoke make:

$ cd <stan-getting-started>
$ make

will run the quarto build process and produce an html document in the file quarto/stan-getting-started.html.

To run the same thing manually, you can do this

$ quarto render quarto/stan-getting-started.qmd --to html 

PDF format

To produce the pdf, you can first change to the top-levle directory, then run make:

$ cd <stan-getting-started>
$ make quarto/stan-getting-started.pdf

To run the same thing manually, you can do this

$ quarto render quarto/stan-getting-started.qmd --to pdf