statistics

UFO sighting data A recent #TidyTuesday data set piqued my interest. It’s a rather large collection of worldwide reportings of UFO sightings. Interesting. You can download the data yourself and load it into R: library("readr") ufo_sightings = read_csv("ufo_sightings.csv") ufo_sightings contains information about thousands of UFO sightings. Each sighting contains information such as the date and time (reported_date_time, day_part) of the sighting, the location (city, state, country) of the sighting, and other information such as a freetext summary.

A little bit about you Let’s assume you’re familiar with Bayesian statistics; you know what I mean when I say prior, likelihood and posterior. Recall that an MCMC scheme constructs a Markov chain as a method to sample from the posterior density. You may have used a probabilistic programming language (PPL) in the past, such as BUGS, to perform Bayesian inference. You’ve heard about Stan and want to learn a little more.

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