A meta post introducing my solutions to the fantastic excellent second edition of “Statistical Rethinking” by Richard McElreath, a.k.a. Statistical Rethinking². Also discusses strategies to keep up with the material, mostly meant for self-study groups. Background As detailed previously, I recently was part of a course centered around Bayesian modeling for the Icelandic COVID-19 pandemic. The Bayesian mindset needs no introduction, and this post is completely inadequete to explain why any...| rgoswami.me
This post discusses briefly, the nix-shell environment for reproducible programming. In particular, there is an emphasis on extensions for installing and working with packages not in CRAN, i.e. packages off Github which are normally installed with devtools. Background The entire nix ecosystem is fantastic, and is the main packaging system used by d-SEAMS as well. Recently I began working through the excellent second edition of “Statistical Rethinking” by Richard McElreath1.| rgoswami.me