{"id":814,"date":"2019-09-05T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=814"},"modified":"2019-09-04T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T12:51:54","slug":"a-simple-introduction-to-bayesian-linear-regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/a-simple-introduction-to-bayesian-linear-regression\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple introduction to Bayesian linear regression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I referred in passing to <tt>rstanarm<\/tt> and Bayesian linear regression in the R notebook on <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/pages\/variable-selection\/reducing-the-number-of-covariates.nb.html\">reducing the number of covariates<\/a>. We&#8217;ll encounter Bayesian approaches again soon, and I just happened to run across a nice, simple introduction to Bayesian linear regression. It uses Python, with which I am only glancingly familiar, but you don&#8217;t need to run Python to read the discussion and understand what&#8217;s going on. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with Bayesian inference or if you&#8217;d just like to check your understanding, take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/introduction-to-bayesian-linear-regression-e66e60791ea7\">Introduction to Bayesian Linear Regression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I referred in passing to rstanarm and Bayesian linear regression in the R notebook on reducing the number of covariates. We&#8217;ll encounter Bayesian approaches again soon, and I just happened&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/a-simple-introduction-to-bayesian-linear-regression\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}