Until today, I limited distribution of the solutions manual to instructors and other appropriate professionals. Understandably, this disappointed many people. It was only a matter of time before the solutions would be made publicly available, and now is a good time for the release because it is between major academic sessions for most schools in the northern hemisphere. The solutions manual is a 187 page document composed by the author. It is available from
this link.
Please note that the solutions are based on the original BUGS programs, but the recommended recent versions of the programs are in JAGS.
7 comments:
It would be good for some readers, but could be problematic for instructors... what if they want to use some problems for HW and their students know this link... what about for your course?
I polled instructors previously, and nearly all had no objections. In fact, some welcomed the release of the solutions. For instructors who want to use the exercises for grading students, it is easy to change the numbers (data) so that students still have to execute the method and produce their own results.
Thanks for doing this. It's a real boon for professionals like me who were raised on the classical method and are trying to bootstrap our way forward into the present.
Thanks so much for doing this. I'm using your book to teach myself bayesian data analysis and the solutions allow me to check that I'm on the right track.
I am learning Baysesian data analysis on my own and having the solution to check my understanding has been very helpful. Thank you.
I find the solutions very helpful as well. Would it be possible to publish the code electronically as well? I find it more helpful to walk through the code line by line in R so that I can see the execution rather than typing it in which is rather tedious.
Dear Anonymous December 16:
Well, the exercises are supposed to be exercises, not just more demo's like the text. There's value in having to do the exercises, not just clicking "run" on a working demo. So, I'll keep the solutions as they are, without providing complete code for every answer. But thanks for asking, and thanks for your interest in the book!
Post a Comment