Chapter 1 About this project

This project is the work of Andrew MacDonald and Nick Tierney (and maybe others?). It is a book club organized around Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath. This text is an introduction to building and understanding bayesian regression models, using R and Stan.

The book you are looking at right now is a collection of notes, impressions, and code. Our main goal has been to reproduce all the figures in the text, and answer all the exercises. In doing so, it is our intention to learn as much as we can and share it. This book is not a copy of Statistical Rethinking. We also make no claim to be correct or complete in our execution of these figures and analyses. If you want to know what Rethinking says about a topic, you should buy a copy :)

This project will involve quite a bit more of an accent from the so-called Tidyverse than is present in the book.