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: compile markdown to HTML, pdf
• Python 3: 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

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The original book

This current draft supersedes the original draft, which includes a pre-built pdf.