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Statistical Rethinking course at MPI-EVA from Dec 2018 through Feb 2019

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Open jneuer opened 5 years ago

jneuer commented 5 years ago

(Version compiled Feb. 23, 2019)

P. 126, below R code 5.2: "The prior above thinks that only 5% of plausible slopes are more extreme than 1."
P. 127, caption for Fig. 5.3: "implausibly"
P. 130, last paragraph of overthinking box:
- "The coordinates function lets..."
- Overfull hbox
P. 130, below model specification: "I've chosen M for marriage rate..."
P. 132, below R code 5.9: "The posterior means are shown..."
P. 133, second paragraph after R code 5.10: insert space between "rnorm(" and "N"
P. 138:
- First paragraph: "This is a serious obstacle..."
- Item (1) of 5.1.4.3: "Chapter ??"
- Item (2): "relies upon the analyst's domain expertise"
P. 151, paragraph below R code 5.37: "hidden by precis by default

kenjioman commented 5 years ago

(still present in 2019.02.28 version) Section 5.1, Page 125, Figure 5.2 caption, middle and last sentence

Both predictor variables are standardized in this example.
- Examining the figures, they don't look standardized ...
... marriage rate across States is ...
- ... marriage rate across the United States is ...
... the average median age at marriage ...
- ... the median age at marriage ...

Section 5.1.1, Page 129, paragraph after the DAG image

The question we want to answered:
- Either, "The question we want to answer", or "The question we want answered"

Section 5.2, Page 142, Paragraph after one containing R code block 5.21

AdrienLeGuillou commented 4 years ago

(Version compiled Dec. 8, 2019)

Section 5.1.2, Page 134, paragraph starting with: That ̸⊥⊥ thing means “not independent of.”

... measures of association — mamy different patterns...
- ... measures of association — many different patterns...

Page 142, just above Rcode 5.16

... segments for the confidence interval of each prediction:
- They are referred to as compatibility intervals in Figure 5.5 caption (Page 143)

Section 5.1.5.3, Page 144, first paragraph

... This means you have take care not to plot nonsense...
- ... This means youhave to take care not to plot nonsense...

Rcode 5.25, first line

Page 152, below Rcode 5.37

... with a wide confidence interval that is consistent with a wide ran ...
- should compatibility interval be used instead to be coherent with section 3.2.2?