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Product Description
Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian methodology. This bookprovides an accessible introduction to Bayesian methods, tailored specifically for social science students. Itcontains lots of real examples from political science, psychology, sociology, and economics,exercises in all chapters, and detailed descriptions of all the key concepts, without assuming any background in statistics beyond a first course. Itfeatures examples of how to implement the methods using WinBUGS – the most-widely used Bayesian analysis software in the world – and R – an open-source statistical software.The bookis supported by a Website featuring WinBUGS and R code, data sets, and solutions to exercises.
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