Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python

Open access and Code

This repository contains the open-access version of the text and the code examples in the book. All of this can be more easily viewed at www.bayesiancomputationbook.com

Updated code

For the most up-to-date code please check the folder notebooks_updated. This code is updated to work with the latest versions of the libraries used in the book, which means that some of the code will be different from the one in the book.

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Environment installation

To run the code you will need to install the correct packages in a computational environment. We have provided instructions below for common options.

Conda

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate bmcp

Colab

The book code can also be run using Google Colab. https://colab.research.google.com

More instructions to come soon

Citation

If you use the online or printed versions of this book in your own work, please cite us using

Martin Osvaldo A, Kumar Ravin; Lao Junpeng Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python Boca Ratón, 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-89436-8

Here is the citation in BibTeX format

@book{BMCP2021,
  title = {{Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python}},
  author = {Martin, Osvaldo A. and Kumar, Ravin and Lao, Junpeng},
  year = {2021},
  month = dec,
  address = {{Boca Raton}},
  isbn = {978-0-367-89436-8},
}

Donation

This book is only possible because of open source contributors working on the projects we used. If you like this book we encourage you to make a donation to ArviZ or PyMC.