Variational Bayes

Variational Bayes came up in conversation on expectation maximization recently and I remembered that I’ve had this reading list sitting in my “to be published” queue for months. Variational Bayes is just a Bayesian version of expectation maximization but it can…

A Bayesian Multilevel Reading List

Here’s a list of readings on Bayesian Hierarchical Models with specific reference to multilevel modeling. This is a work in progress but it would work reasonably well as the basic reading list for an advanced topics course in Bayesian multilevel modeling….