Solutions to the Exercises: Chapter 3 – Question 2
Last time I presented my solution to the first question at the end of chapter 3 of ‘Bayesian analysis with Stata’ and this time I want to consider question 2 from the same chapter. Question 2 This question analyses some data on the prevalence of very pre-term births (VPT) in Europe using a small 1997 […]
Solutions to the Exercises: Chapter 3 – Question 1
This is another of my occasional postings working through the exercises given at the end of the chapters in ‘Bayesian analysis with Stata’. Chapter 3 introduces the Metropolis-Hastings sampler and so enables us to tackle any small sized Bayesian analysis. For larger problems this method can be too slow and faster algorithms are needed. Despite […]
Solutions to the Exercises: Chapter 2
This is the second of my occasional postings working through the exercises given at the end of the chapters in ‘Bayesian analysis with Stata’. Chapter 2 was perhaps the most difficult chapter to write because I wanted to cover the creation of Stata programs for the calculation of the log posterior before I had introduced […]
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