Bayesian Gaussian Process Beta Regression Models for the Social Sciences: A Case Study on Spatial Proportion Data from Archaeology

Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences II, 17th of October 2024, Amsterdam

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Methods

All simulations were coded using Stan (Stan Development Team, 2021b), using the RStan package version 2.26.22 (Stan Development Team, 2021a) as an interface to communicate between Stan and R, with all post-sampling analyses and graphs conducted in R v. 4.3.1 (R Core Team, 2023), and using RStudio v. 2023.02.2 (RStudio Team, 2023).

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