Thistextbookbypassestheneedforadvancedmathematicsbyprovidingin-textcomputercode,allowingstudentstoexploreBayesiandataanalysiswithoutthecalculusbackgroundnormallyconsideredaprerequisiteforthismaterial.Now,studentscanusethebestmethodswithoutneedingadvancedmathematicaltechniques.Thisapproachgoesbeyond“frequentist“conceptsofp-valuesandnullhypothesistesting,usingthefullpowerofmodernprobabilitytheorytosolvereal-worldproblems.Thebookoffersafullyself-containedcourse,whichdemonstratesanalysistechniquesthroughoutwithworkedexamplescraftedspecificallyforstudentsinthebehavioralandneuralsciences.Thebookpresentstwogeneralalgorithmsthathelpstudentssolvethemeasurementandmodelselection(alsocalled“hypothesistesting“)problemsmostfrequentlyencounteredinreal-worldapplications.
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