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Learning Bayesian Models with R

Learning Bayesian Models with R

By : Hari Manassery Koduvely
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Learning Bayesian Models with R

Learning Bayesian Models with R

3.4 (7)
By: Hari Manassery Koduvely

Overview of this book

Bayesian Inference provides a unified framework to deal with all sorts of uncertainties when learning patterns form data using machine learning models and use it for predicting future observations. However, learning and implementing Bayesian models is not easy for data science practitioners due to the level of mathematical treatment involved. Also, applying Bayesian methods to real-world problems requires high computational resources. With the recent advances in computation and several open sources packages available in R, Bayesian modeling has become more feasible to use for practical applications today. Therefore, it would be advantageous for all data scientists and engineers to understand Bayesian methods and apply them in their projects to achieve better results. Learning Bayesian Models with R starts by giving you a comprehensive coverage of the Bayesian Machine Learning models and the R packages that implement them. It begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of probability theory and R programming for those who are new to the subject. Then the book covers some of the important machine learning methods, both supervised and unsupervised learning, implemented using Bayesian Inference and R. Every chapter begins with a theoretical description of the method explained in a very simple manner. Then, relevant R packages are discussed and some illustrations using data sets from the UCI Machine Learning repository are given. Each chapter ends with some simple exercises for you to get hands-on experience of the concepts and R packages discussed in the chapter. The last chapters are devoted to the latest development in the field, specifically Deep Learning, which uses a class of Neural Network models that are currently at the frontier of Artificial Intelligence. The book concludes with the application of Bayesian methods on Big Data using the Hadoop and Spark frameworks.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Bayesian view of uncertainty

The classical or frequentist statistics typically take the view that any physical process-generating data containing noise can be modeled by a stochastic model with fixed values of parameters. The parameter values are learned from the observed data through procedures such as maximum likelihood estimate. The essential idea is to search in the parameter space to find the parameter values that maximize the probability of observing the data seen so far. Neither the uncertainty in the estimation of model parameters from data, nor the uncertainty in the model itself that explains the phenomena under study, is dealt with in a formal way. The Bayesian approach, on the other hand, treats all sources of uncertainty using probabilities. Therefore, neither the model to explain an observed dataset nor its parameters are fixed, but they are treated as uncertain variables. Bayesian inference provides a framework to learn the entire distribution of model parameters, not just...

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