Bayesian statistics for social scientists, a four-part Introduction with Exercises
These four helpful files on Introductory Bayesian social statistics include:
one Exercises document,
one 2-page Poster in powerpoint (PDF) at large scale, and
two sets of 40 Powerpoint slides each "Introductory" & "Advanced".
Use all these for self-managed learning. Or hold a workshop and learn together!
In all, this set of materials might take up to three hours to read through at a rapid or superficial level. In the poster, I provide more detail on your learning time inputs for various learning objectives. For a typical UK based social scientist, it may take 6 weeks at 10 hours a week to learn Bayesian Social Statistics using these methods. It will take less if your mathematics is very good, or more if you are not familiar with input-output file processing software (such as SPSS, Stata, or R). I offer an Excel alternative authored by Woodward as a learning objective for those without any programming background... and it really works! - Wendy Olsen
Use this citation for creative commons attribution: Olsen, Wendy (2018), "HelpIntroBayesianSocialScientists", learning materials, URL www.github.com/WendyOlsen/HelpIntroBayesianSocialScientists, Creative Commons, University of Manchester, accessed August 2018.