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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Model Selection (continuing 6.7.2 and 2.11.13)

We have previously looked at a dataset with fatal airplane accidents. First, we created two different models for the count of fatal…

4 min readDec 2, 2019

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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Posterior Predictive Checking (6.7.2)

Our previous look at exercise 2.11.13 continues in exercise 6.7.2 with posterior predictive checking of the models we implemented.

4 min readNov 21, 2019

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Posterior Predictive Checking (6.7.2)

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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Computation: 2.11.13 in RStan

To give us another close look at modeling and computing using RStan, here’s exercise 2.11.13.

4 min readOct 3, 2019

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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Exponential Families II: Samples and sufficiency

In our last installment, we defined exponential families and gave examples from a range of familiar distributions. Now I would like to…

3 min readSep 26, 2019

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Exponential Families II: Samples and sufficiency

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Exponential Families I: Definitions and Examples

Many of the distributions we keep meeting in statistics have density functions that can be written as exp[…] for something useful inside…

5 min readSep 26, 2019

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Exponential Families I: Definitions and Examples

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Structure of an article: This is a title

This is the first paragraph. Especially in news articles, the first paragraph serves to give an enticement for the rest of the article —…

1 min readSep 25, 2019

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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

A first look at computation

We will be digging far deeper into this as the semester goes on, but having already seen a first Bayesian inference step in the 3rd…

5 min readSep 18, 2019

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A first look at computation

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

ℙ or Pr or p or … ?

There are a LOT of different p floating around anything probability related, and it’s not always clear how they fit together, nor what…

4 min readSep 11, 2019

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ℙ or Pr or p or … ?

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson
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CUNY CSI MTH594 Bayesian Data Analysis

Probability Preliminaries

There are a fair number of things that the first chapter of BDA3 (Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed) skips over — considering them to be…

6 min readSep 10, 2019

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Probability Preliminaries

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CUNY CSI MTH513

MTH513 Course blog submission instructions

We will be using Medium for the MTH513 (Machine Learning) blog posts. Some important details for writing your post follow here:

1 min readMar 20, 2019

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

Applied algebraic topologist with wide-spread interests: functional programming, cooking, music, LARPs, fashion, and much more.

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