Computational Statistics

Notes and pedagodical materials for some favorite statistical methods.

Course videos from District Data Labs workshop.

Frequentist Methods

• Monte Carlo methods
• Bootstrap

Bayesian Methods

• Bayesian Inference
• Markov chain Monte Carlo

External Resources

• [Bill Press' graduate course at UT] (http://granite.ices.utexas.edu/coursewiki/index.php/Main_Page)
• [Cam Davidson Pilon's book Bayesian Methods for Hackers] (http://camdavidsonpilon.github.io/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers/)
• [Primer on Bayesian Inference in Biophysical Journal] (http://keeganhin.es/static/Hines_2015.pdf)
• [JakeVDP's slides Statistics For Hackers] (https://speakerdeck.com/jakevdp/statistics-for-hackers)