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Bayesian

An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on bayesian, spanning 2005 to 2023. Featuring works by Christopher J. Gill, Russell A. Poldrack — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Why Clinicians Are Natural Bayesians

Christopher J. Gill, 2005 · BMJ, Vol. 330

A short BMJ editorial that argues doctors are already doing Bayesian reasoning — just informally, through pattern recognition and base rates — and would benefit from doing it explicitly. The piece is a clear, short intro…

Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

Russell A. Poldrack, 2023 · Self-published (open textbook, continuously updated)

Poldrack is a Stanford neuroscientist who wrote an open-source statistics textbook because he was tired of what was available for his own students. The book covers the fundamentals — probability, hypothesis testing, regr…