Models should be designed as approximations to help us understand a particular problem, or a class of related problems. Models are not designed to be verbatim copies of the real world. Thus, all models are wrong in the same sense that maps are not the territory. Even when a priori, we consider every model to be wrong, not every model is equally wrong; some models will be better than others at describing a given problem. In the foregoing chapters, we focused our attention on the inference problem, that is, how to learn values of parameters from the data. In this chapter, we are going to focus on a complementary problem: how to compare two or more models that are used to explain the same data. As we will learn, this is not a simple...

Bayesian Analysis with Python
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Overview of this book
The second edition of Bayesian Analysis with Python is an introduction to the main concepts of applied Bayesian inference and its practical implementation in Python using PyMC3, a state-of-the-art probabilistic programming library, and ArviZ, a new library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models.
The main concepts of Bayesian statistics are covered using a practical and computational approach. Synthetic and real data sets are used to introduce several types of models, such as generalized linear models for regression and classification, mixture models, hierarchical models, and Gaussian processes, among others.
By the end of the book, you will have a working knowledge of probabilistic modeling and you will be able to design and implement Bayesian models for your own data science problems. After reading the book you will be better prepared to delve into more advanced material or specialized statistical modeling if you need to.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Thinking Probabilistically
Programming Probabilistically
Modeling with Linear Regression
Generalizing Linear Models
Model Comparison
Mixture Models
Gaussian Processes
Inference Engines
Where To Go Next?
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