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10 Doing Bayesian Data Analysis
College sent extensive comments. Adrian Brasoveanu at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and John Miyamoto at the University of Washington, also conveyed or
posted information about their courses. The review by Vanpaemel and Tuerlinckx (2012)
reported experiences from classroom use. Thanks to all the instructors who have boldly
tried the rst edition in their courses. I hope that the second edition is even more useful
for the classroom and self study.
Over recent years there have been many students in my classes who have made
insightful comments and suggestions. Some of these include Young Ahn, Gregory Cox,
Junyi Dai, Josh de Lueew, Andrew Jahn, Arash Khodadadi, and Torrin Liddell. Thanks
to Torrin Liddell also for help with checking the proofs of the book. I thank Anne
Standish for researching and recommending a discussion forum for the book’s blog.
I am grateful to the many people who have left thoughtful comments at the blog and
discussion forum. Thanks also to several careful readers who reported errors in the rst
edition. And thanks to Jacob Hodes for being so interested in Bayesian analysis that he
would travel to a conference to talk with me about it.
The rst edition of this book was 6 years in the making, and many colleagues and
students provided helpful comments during that period. The most extensive comments
came from Luiz Pessoa, Michael Kalish, Jerome Busemeyer, and Adam Krawitz; thank
you all! Particular sections were insightfully improved by helpful comments from Michael
Erickson, Robert Nosofsky, Geo Iverson, and James L. (Jay) McClelland. Various
parts of the book beneted indirectly from communications with Woojae Kim, Charles
Liu, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, and Jerey Rouder. Pointers to data sets were oered by
Teresa Treat and Michael Trosset, among others. Very welcome supportive feedback
was provided by Michael D. Lee, and also by Adele Diederich. A Bayesian-supportive
working environment was provided by many colleagues including Richard Shirin,
Jerome Busemeyer, Peter Todd, James Townsend, Robert Nosofsky, and Luiz Pessoa.
Other department colleagues have been very supportive of integrating Bayesian statistics
into the curriculum, including Linda Smith and Amy Holtzworth-Munroe. Various
teaching assistants have provided helpful comments; in particular I especially thank Noah
Silbert and Thomas Wisdom for their excellent assistance. As this book has evolved over
the years, suggestions have been contributed by numerous students, including Aaron
Albin, Thomas Smith, Sean Matthews, Thomas Parr, Kenji Yoshida, Bryan Bergert, and
perhaps dozens of others who have contributed insightful questions or comments that
helped me tune the presentation in the book.
Gratefully acknowledged are the creators of the software R (RCoreTeam, 2013),
RStudio (RStudio, 2013), JAGS (Plummer, 2003, 2012), RunJAGS (Denwood, 2013),
BUGS (Lunn, Thomas, Best, & Spiegelhalter, 2000; A. Thomas, O’Hara, Ligges, &
Sturtz, 2006), and Stan (Stan Development Team, 2012). Also gratefully acknowledged
are the creators of the typesetting software L
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and MikTeX (http://miktex.org/), the editor TeXmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/