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Next week: Chapter 10 #17

Open oharac opened 5 years ago

oharac commented 5 years ago

Today we walked through an example from the online problem set mentioned in #15, and for me at least it seemed pretty helpful to develop that Bayesian intuition. Everyone should go back and try another one or two of those - they're pretty simple, no distributions or anything like that, but just to solidify Bayesian ideas.

I presented some code for Pseudocode 9.1 that uses a normal distribution for the prior; if others get stuck feel free to borrow from that, but would be cool to see other approaches to doing it as well.

Next week we'll look at Chapter 10, with a goal of having pseudocode 10.1 done and 10.2 started (these are pretty similar to prior exercises - estimating parameters); 10.3 is where the Bayesian stuff comes back in, but we can save that for the following week.

Sebastian's going to borrow Molly's book (thanks Molly!)

stapial commented 5 years ago

Hey guys I'm afraid I'll have to skip today's meeting. Gotta deal with some analysis issues so I can leave town with a clear head and do some progress while out

couture322 commented 5 years ago

You're gonna miss cake! 🎂

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oharac commented 5 years ago

hey all - Jess is out of town, and I haven't made any progress since last time... so can we skip tomorrow? We can check in over issues (e.g. responding to this one)

oharac commented 5 years ago

heyo eco detectives - I just wrapped up Chapter 10 (woo hoo, Spring Break!). Pseudocode 10.3 was a little tricky, in no small part because there's a typo in eqn 10.10 that took me a while to discover and then troubleshoot: it should be B/(a + bB) (it's missing the b in the denom). Anyway, I pushed mine if you want to take a look.