Posts tagged hierarchical model

Hierarchical Partial Pooling

Suppose you are tasked with estimating baseball batting skills for several players. One such performance metric is batting average. Since players play a different number of games and bat in different positions in the order, each player has a different number of at-bats. However, you want to estimate the skill of all players, including those with a relatively small number of batting opportunities.

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Hierarchical Binomial Model: Rat Tumor Example

This short tutorial demonstrates how to use PyMC to do inference for the rat tumour example found in chapter 5 of Bayesian Data Analysis 3rd Edition [Gelman et al., 2013]. Readers should already be familiar with the PyMC API.

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Bayesian Vector Autoregressive Models

Duplicate implicit target name: “bayesian vector autoregressive models”.

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A Primer on Bayesian Methods for Multilevel Modeling

Hierarchical or multilevel modeling is a generalization of regression modeling.

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NBA Foul Analysis with Item Response Theory

This tutorial shows an application of Bayesian Item Response Theory [Fox, 2010] to NBA basketball foul calls data using PyMC. Based on Austin Rochford’s blogpost NBA Foul Calls and Bayesian Item Response Theory.

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A Hierarchical model for Rugby prediction

top-level ‘substitutions’ key is deprecated, place under ‘myst’ key instead [myst.topmatter]

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Simpson’s paradox and mixed models

This notebook covers:

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GLM: Mini-batch ADVI on hierarchical regression model

Unlike Gaussian mixture models, (hierarchical) regression models have independent variables. These variables affect the likelihood function, but are not random variables. When using mini-batch, we should take care of that.

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Diagnosing Biased Inference with Divergences

This notebook is a PyMC3 port of Michael Betancourt’s post on mc-stan. For detailed explanation of the underlying mechanism please check the original post, Diagnosing Biased Inference with Divergences and Betancourt’s excellent paper, A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.

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