Suggested further readings
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Suggested further readings¶
There are a number of different logical positions in which treatments of Bayesian statistics started that are relevant to NMA.
Statistics:¶
Beautiful combination of Bayesian statistics with information theory by the late David MacKay. The book is available for free online. Simply beautiful: MacKay, D. J. C. Information theory, inference and learning algorithms. Cambridge university press, 2003.
Still the standard book. Not exactly perfect for beginners but beautiful: Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., & Rubin, D. B. (1995). Bayesian data analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
A great text book full of intuitive illustration:
McElreath, R. (2020). Statistical rethinking: A Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
This book also comes with youtube video/lectures that cover every chapter of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVelCswXo4&list=PLDcUM9US4XdNM4Edgs7weiyIguLSToZRI. One of the best resources out there to get started on Bayesian stuff.
This book is good for the python Bayes codes: Downey, A. (2013). Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Another introductory book: Kruschke, J. (2014). Doing Bayesian data analysis: A tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan. Academic Press.
Normative Models:¶
The book that propelled the field to visibility: Knill, D. C., and Richards, W. (Eds.). (1996). Perception as Bayesian inference. Cambridge University Press.
This book is largely focused on Bayesian approaches to cue combination: Welchman, A. E., Trommershauser, J., Kording, K., & Landy, M. S. (2011). Decoding the cortical representation of depth. Sensory cue integration. Oxford University Press.
Analysis of neural data:¶
This book contains a good treatment of Bayesian approaches to the analysis of neural data: Kass, R. E., Eden, U. T., & Brown, E. N. (2014). Analysis of neural data (Vol. 491). New York: Springer.