I’m a beginner and am working my way through rethinking. I have an issue where I am trying to include data in my models to inform the parameters by using the observed keyword argument but get what appear to be incorrect parameter estimates. I’ve also tried making hierarchical normal models previous …

Welcome! By specifying n=len(data), you are implying that you are considering a scenario in which there are 9 “flips” or attempts. You then provide an array of observed data: observed=[0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1] But this suggests that the first time you “flipped the coin” 9 times, it came up “head” 0 ti…

Statistical Rethinking Ch 3 Q1 Code / observed = data errors / beginner question

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bobthebuilder June 2, 2022, 5:20am 7

Thank you! I’ll probably come here with my questions more often then!

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