A First Bayesian Course: Why, What, and How

Talk at RSS Teaching Statistics SIG, The past, present and future of statistics teaching

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During this talk, I will discuss the importance of Bayesian statistics for undergraduate learners. I will share an outline of an undergraduate Bayesian course and examples from the open access “Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with R” book. I will provide insights about computational aspects of teaching Bayesian statistics and include examples from the {rstan} and {rstanarm} as well as the {bayesrules} package - a pedagogical package that supplements the Bayes Rules! book.