Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers
by Cameron Davidson-Pilon
Publisher: GitHub, Inc. 2013
Description:
This book is designed as an introduction to Bayesian inference from a computational understanding-first, and mathematics-second, point of view. The book assumes no prior knowledge of Bayesian inference nor probabilistic programming.
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