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  title info:
    title: Practical Bayesian inference
    sub title: a primer for physical scientists
  name:
    name part: Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 295 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: Science is fundamentally about learning from data, and doing so in the presence of uncertainty. Uncertainty arises inevitably and avoidably in many guises. It comes from noise in our measurements. We cannot measure exactly. It comes from sampling effects. We cannot measure everything. It comes from complexity. Data may be numerous, high dimensional and correlated, making it difficult to see structures. This book is an introduction to statistical methods for analysing data. It presents the major concepts of probability and statistics as well as the computational tools we need to extract meaning from data in the presence of uncertainty.
  table of contents: Probability basics -- Estimation and uncertainty -- Statistical models and inference -- Linear models, least squares, and maximum likelihood -- Parameter estimation: single parameter -- Parameter estimation: multiple parameters -- Approximating distributions -- Monte Carlo methods for inference -- Parameter estimation: Markov Chain Monte Carlo -- Frequentist hypothesis testing -- Model comparison -- Dealing with more complicated problems.
  note: Coryn A.L. Bailer-Jones.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-290) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Bayesian statistical decision theory
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  classification: QC20.7.B38 B35 2017
  classification: 519.5/42
  identifier: 9781107192119
  identifier: 1107192110
  identifier: 9781316642214
  identifier: 1316642216
  identifier: 2016059505
  record info:
    record content source: OU/DLC
    record creation date: 170127
    record change date: 20170926131248.0
    record identifier: in00003884561