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Book Detail
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Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences
Kaplan, David
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Previous ISBN (13): 9781462516513 Category: Nursing: Research Publisher: Guilford Press Imprint: The Guilford Press Audience: Professional and scholarly Dimensions: 10.0 x 0.63 x 7.0 in
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Synopsis:
The second edition of this practical book equips social science researchers to apply the latest Bayesian methodologies to their data analysis problems. It includes new chapters on model uncertainty, Bayesian variable selection and sparsity, and Bayesian workflow for statistical modeling. Clearly explaining frequentist and epistemic probability and prior distributions, the second edition emphasizes use of the open-source RStan software package. The text covers Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, Bayesian linear regression and generalized linear models, model evaluation and comparison, multilevel modeling, models for continuous and categorical latent variables, missing data, and more. Concepts are fully illustrated with worked-through examples from large-scale educational and social science databases, such as the Program for International Student Assessment and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Annotated RStan code appears in screened boxes; the companion website provides data sets and code for the book's examples.
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