Publications by Rasmus Bååth
A Stan case study, sort of: The probability my son will be stung by a bumblebee
The Stan project for statistical computation has a great collection of curated case studies which anybody can contribute to, maybe even me, I was thinking. But I don’t have time to worry about that right now because I’m on vacation, being on the yearly visit to my old family home in the north of Sweden. What I do worry about is that my son w...
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My introductory course on Bayesian statistics
So, after having held workshops introducing Bayes for a couple of years now, I finally pulled myself together and completed my DataCamp course: Fundamentals of Bayesian Data Analysis in R! ???? While it’s called a course, it’s more like a 4 hour workshop and — without requiring anything but basic R skills and a vague notion of probability ...
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Yet another visualization of the Bayesian Beta-Binomial model
The Beta-Binomial model is the “hello world” of Bayesian statistics. That is, it’s the first model you get to run, often before you even know what you are doing. There are many reasons for this: It only has one parameter, the underlying proportion of success, so it’s easy to visualize and reason about. It’s easy to come up with a scen...
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Yet another visualization of the Bayesian Beta-Binomial model
The Beta-Binomial model is the “hello world” of Bayesian statistics. That is, it’s the first model you get to run, often before you even know what you are doing. There are many reasons for this: It only has one parameter, the underlying proportion of success, so it’s easy to visualize and reason about. It’s easy to come up with a scen...
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Image Dithering in R
This January I played the most intriguing computer game I’ve played in ages: The Return of the Obra Dinn. Except for being a masterpiece of murder-mystery storytelling it also has the most unique art-style as it only uses black and white pixels. To pull this off Obra Dinn makes use of image dithering: the arrangement of pixels of low color reso...
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The Tidyverse in a Table
This was my submission to the 2020 RStudio Table Contest. For many good reasons it didn’t qualify, you can check out all those good reasons here: Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest. Some tables are beautiful. And yes, I’m talking about the stats-and-numbers kind of tables and not the ones you get at IKEA. Some tables show carefully se...
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