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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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8.9 Regression with spatial autocorrelation

The following example is taken from Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and STAN, Second Edition by Richard McElreath, Copyright (2020) by Chapman and Hall/CRC. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Group. I strongly recommend reading this book, as you will find many good examples like this and very good explanations. The only caveat is that the book examples are in R/Stan, but don’t worry and keep sampling; you will find the Python/PyMC version of those examples in the https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources resources.

For this example we have 10 different island societies; for each one of them, we have the number of tools they use. Some theories predict that larger populations develop and sustain more tools than smaller populations. Thus, we have a regression problem where the dependent variable is the number of tools and the independent variable is the population. Because the number of tools...

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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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