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Index to first 75 posts

This is the 75th post to this blog. Every 25 posts I produce an index of posts so far for easy reference. If I make it to post 100 I’ll do something similar. 25. Catalogue of my first 25 blog posts 50....

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Unbiased MCMC with couplings

Yesterday there was an RSS Read Paper meeting for the paper Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo with couplings by Pierre Jacob, John O’Leary and Yves F. Atchadé. The paper addresses the bias in MCMC...

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MCMC code for Bayesian inference for a discretely observed stochastic kinetic...

In June this year the (twice COVID-delayed) Richard J Boys Memorial Workshop finally took place, celebrating the life and work of my former colleague and collaborator, who died suddenly in 2019...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 1)

Part 1: The basics Introduction This is the first in a series of posts on MCMC-based fully Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. In this series we will look at the model, and see how the...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 2)

Part 2: The log posterior Introduction This is the second part in a series of posts on MCMC-based Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. If you are new to this series, please go back to...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 3)

Part 3: The Metropolis algorithm Introduction This is the third part in a series of posts on MCMC-based Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. If you are new to this series, please go...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 4)

Part 4: Gradients and the Langevin algorithm Introduction This is the fourth part in a series of posts on MCMC-based Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. If you are new to this series,...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 5)

Part 5: the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm (MALA) Introduction This is the fifth part in a series of posts on MCMC-based Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. If you are new to...

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Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model (Part 6)

Part 6: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) Introduction This is the sixth part in a series of posts on MCMC-based Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model. If you are new to this series, please...

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An introduction to functional programming for scalable statistical computing...

Functional programming (FP) languages are great for statistical computing, computational statistics, and machine learning. They are particularly well-suited to scalable computation, where this could...

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