Bayes of our lives: a gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics

Bayesian statistics is an interpretation of statistics. It is used to help explain the frequentist methods and can give much more information. Even if you have never really learnt about Bayesian statistics, I guarantee you have encountered it in some way. Bayes, it’s everywhere In this post, we will only consider a linear model: \(y = \beta x + \epsilon\) where \(\epsilon\) is a standard normal. Suppose we have gathered some data \((Y=\{y_i\}_{i=1}^n, X=\{\{x_{k,i}\}_{k=1}^p\}_{i=1}^n)\), which consist of \(p\) predictors and \(n\) observations, and we wish to fit a linear model. [Read More]