Bayes and MCMC for Undergraduates |
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Authors: | Jeff Witmer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH |
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Abstract: | Students of statistics should be taught the ideas and methods that are widely used in practice and that will help them understand the world of statistics. Today, this means teaching them about Bayesian methods. In this article, I present ideas on teaching an undergraduate Bayesian course that uses Markov chain Monte Carlo and that can be a second course or, for strong students, a first course in statistics. |
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Keywords: | Bayesian inference Education Markov chain Monte Carlo |
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