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I’ve worked through the print book version of this twice and it is absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend the book. Looks like some draft chapters of the second edition are freely available, but the first edition was already fantastic.
I just started reading the book today because Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis seems too theoretical and sometimes hard to parse. But this book seems too much of the opposite, there's almost no math...
There’s math, you just have to keep reading. It starts out very conceptual. I think Gelman’s book will be a lot more approachable after McElreth.
The math is the easy part of statistics. What really marks the people who get it is that they understand the part that isn't math.
does anyone know if there's a pyro or tf probability version somewhere?