Melissa Wong

Melissa Wong

Test & Evaluation Statistican, The MITRE Corporation

R-Ladies RTP Presentation

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I had the opportunity to present at the R-Ladies RTP January 2021 meeting, which is the local chapter of R-Ladies Global. My talk was a gentle introduction to Bayesian methods and some R packages for fitting Bayesian models. I demonstrated how to fit various regression models in the rstanarm, rethinking and brms packages. I also described a beginner-friendly path towards working with rstan directly. The content of my talk can be found here.

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