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Joe12:10:02

Hello, I'm reading McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking", which has code examples in R (heavily lifting in bmrs), and there are translations to Python (PyMC3), and Julia. I'm following along with the first few chapters using Clojure, just using core functions and apache commons math lib, but obviously that won't cut it for long. Is there a library or combination of Clojure libraries that would be appropriate for the model building and MCMC sampling? Has anyone done this translation to Clojure? I know there's Incanter and Anglican, but I can't get a sense of which one, if either, is the de facto standard in the community, and I don't know enough about the subject to judge for myself. Thanks

genmeblog12:10:39

I've written inferme which should be suitable for translating most examples.

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genmeblog12:10:34

Regarding the book, there are Ch2 and Ch3 translated to Clojure: https://jointprob.github.io/jointprob-clerk/

Joe15:10:55

@U1EP3BZ3Q Thank you, I will check it out! @U066L8B18 I am not, looks interesting though. Is the output of that group the Clerkbooks at https://jointprob.github.io/jointprob-clerk/ ? Those look like they are hand rolling the functionality with FastMath, is that the intent for the rest of the McElreath book, or do you plan to switch to an existing framework?

genmeblog16:10:41

Notebooks are just personal study notes. There is no dedicated framework or plan to use anything specific afaik

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Daniel Slutsky17:10:32

@U0105JJK1L3 please tell me if you wish to join the group, and if I can help you in catching up (we are looking into Chapter 4 at the moment). We meet regularly to discuss the chapters, and work on some personal projects -- there is no systematic plan for notes at the moment.