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An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics and Linear Regression in Python

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On 25th Jan, Matt Daws presented at the first 'teach me something' session and took us through an excellent introduction to Bayesian statistics, demonstrating how to run a linear regression using  python. All of the material (which can be read online, or downloaded and run locally) is available from his GitHub repo:

https://github.com/MatthewDaws/Python_bits/tree/master/pymc_etc/Talk

The example used an interesting dataset on gender biasses in academic disciplines and the association between peoples' beliefs in the need for an 'innate ability':
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262