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Probability and Statistics: a simulation-based introduction. An open-access book.
https://github.com/bob-carpenter/prob-stats

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Probability and Statistics: a simulation-based introduction. An open-access book.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bob-carpenter/prob-stats
• Owner: bob-carpenter
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2018-12-07T17:18:22.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-07-25T19:06:30.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T19:29:31.844Z (4 months ago)
• Language: TeX
• Homepage:
• Size: 11.3 MB
• Stars: 303
• Watchers: 23
• Forks: 52
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# *Probability and Statistics: a simulation-based approach*

This is the source repo for the following open-access book. 

* Bob Carpenter and Brian Ward.  2022 Draft.  *Probability and Statistics: a simulation-based approach*.  Publisher TBD.

The code is released under the BSD-3 license and the text under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license.

## Building the book

From the shell in the directory containing this repo.

```

> cd prob-stats

> quarto preview quarto-book/

```

The following tools are required.

* [Quarto](https://quarto.org): compile markdown to HTML, pdf

* [Python 3](https://www.python.org/): scripting and integration

The following Python packages are also required.

* cmdstanpy: interface to Stan

* numpy: matrices, arrays, and special functions

* pandas: data frames

* plotnine: plotting



#### The original book

This current draft supersedes the

[original draft](original/README.md), which includes a pre-built pdf.