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Osvaldo Martin
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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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Poisson regression

Another very popular generalized linear model is the Poisson regression. This model assumes data is distributed according to the, wait for it... Poisson distribution.

One scenario where Poisson distribution is useful is when counting things, such as the decay of a radioactive nucleus, the number of children per couple, or the number of Twitter followers. What all these examples have in common is that we usually model them using discrete non-negative numbers: {0, 1, 2, 3, ....}. This type of variable receives the name of count data.

Poisson distribution

Imagine we are counting the number of red cars passing through an avenue per hour. We could use Poisson distribution to describe this data. Poisson distribution...

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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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