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Are Noisy Neighbourhoods Less Occupied? An Introduction to Occupancy Modelling

Imagine you work for a city planning office, and a question lands on your desk: do neighbourhoods near highways and other major noise sources have lower residential…

Stefan Schreiber

Distributions and Data Generating Processes

You have count data. Maybe it’s the number of customer support tickets received each hour, the number of errors logged per deployment, or the number of goals scored per…

Stefan Schreiber

Understanding Bayesian Predictions

So you’ve just fit your first Bayesian model using brms or rstanarm. Maybe you were surprised by how easy it was – the syntax looked almost exactly like lm() for a simple…

Stefan Schreiber

Understanding Bayesian Inference: Linear Regression

In our previous post, we explored the foundations of Bayesian inference through a simple example: estimating germination rates from seed trials. We learned how to specify…

Stefan Schreiber

Understanding Bayesian Inference: Foundations

Imagine you’re a medical researcher evaluating a new drug. Before seeing any patient data, you already have some knowledge: similar drugs showed modest effects, basic…

Stefan Schreiber

Understanding Frequentist Inference

Imagine a pharmaceutical company testing a new drug on 50 patients. The average improvement is promising, but is this evidence of a real effect, or could it have happened by…

Stefan Schreiber

The Power of Evidence Synthesis

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Bridging Gaps Between Research and Practice

Sanja Schreiber