Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

You might also like Nate Silver’s book “The Signal and the Noise”. It’s almost non technical and has interesting examples of the use and non use of Bayesian reasoning from the house market collapse to evaluating baseball players. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Tec

Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

You could also look at Richard McElreath's Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan, a book, software package, and youtube lectures. McElreath is an anthropologist who studies the development of social learning in primates, so naturally he teaches a statistics course f

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

I think they were cylinders, not spheres, so there were two holes. This is where we start talking about homology groups. --Barry On 2 Feb 2019, at 12:56, Tom Johnson wrote: How did the melting wax exit the sphere? Probably a hole. So how did you patch the hole to retain perfect symmetry T?

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

Yes. Cylinders not Spheres. Once I had lathed the wax and electroplated the copper shell, I put the heat back up in my vat and the wax melted and the cylinder slid off, They then crushed my precious cylinders I had worked so hard to make. Ed Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Resea

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

> I think they were cylinders, not spheres, so there were two holes. This > is where we start talking about homology groups. We don't absolutely *have* to. The theories of Riemann surfaces and algebraic functions got pretty far just having the (proto-homological, but very ungroupy) notions of "si

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

When I brought up homology I (for real) thought that in this case there are *so many* alternatives I could have used. A short start of a list: homology and cohomology homotopy triangulating the surface and counting vertices, edges, triangles, … with signs looking a functions on the surface

Re: [FRIAM] Learning about Bayesian Statistics

Thanks, everybody, for these suggestions. I should be able to manage extracting data from primates, since that is what my phd was in. N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University h

Re: [FRIAM] Photos of popped balloon

Holy Moly, Lee. With text books like that, I coulda beena mathematician after all! Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfis