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Osvaldo Martin
Osvaldo Martin
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Osvaldo Martin

Osvaldo Martin is a researcher at CONICET, in Argentina. He has experience using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to simulate molecules and perform Bayesian inference. He loves to use Python to solve data analysis problems. He is especially motivated by the development and implementation of software tools for Bayesian statistics and probabilistic modeling. He is an open-source developer, and he contributes to Python libraries like PyMC, ArviZ and Bambi among others. He is interested in all aspects of the Bayesian workflow, including numerical methods for inference, diagnosis of sampling, evaluation and criticism of models, comparison of models and presentation of results.
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Exercises

  1. Check the following definition of a probabilistic model. Identify the likelihood, the prior, and the posterior:
  1. For the model in exercise 1, how many parameters have the posterior? In other words, how many dimensions does it have?
  2. Write down Bayes' theorem for the model in exercise 1.
  1. Check the following model. Identify the linear model and identify the likelihood. How many parameters does the posterior have?
  1. For the model in exercise 1, assume that you have a dataset with 57 data points coming from a Gaussian with a mean of 4 and a standard deviation of 0.5. Using PyMC3, compute:
    • The posterior distribution
    • The prior distribution
    • The posterior predictive distribution
    • The prior predictive distribution

Tip: Besides pm.sample(), PyMC3 has other functions to compute samples.

  1. Execute model_g using NUTS (the default sampler) and then...
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Osvaldo Martin

Osvaldo Martin is a researcher at CONICET, in Argentina. He has experience using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to simulate molecules and perform Bayesian inference. He loves to use Python to solve data analysis problems. He is especially motivated by the development and implementation of software tools for Bayesian statistics and probabilistic modeling. He is an open-source developer, and he contributes to Python libraries like PyMC, ArviZ and Bambi among others. He is interested in all aspects of the Bayesian workflow, including numerical methods for inference, diagnosis of sampling, evaluation and criticism of models, comparison of models and presentation of results.
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