Section 5.5 — Hierarchical models

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Section 5.5 — Hierarchical models#

This notebook contains the code examples from Section 5.5 Hierarchical models from the No Bullshit Guide to Statistics.

Notebook setup#

# load Python modules
import os
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Figures setup
plt.clf()  # needed otherwise `sns.set_theme` doesn"t work
from plot_helpers import RCPARAMS
RCPARAMS.update({"figure.figsize": (5, 3)})   # good for screen
# RCPARAMS.update({"figure.figsize": (5, 1.6)})  # good for print
sns.set_theme(
    context="paper",
    style="whitegrid",
    palette="colorblind",
    rc=RCPARAMS,
)

# High-resolution please
%config InlineBackend.figure_format = "retina"

# Where to store figures
DESTDIR = "figures/bayesian/hierarchical"

<Figure size 640x480 with 0 Axes>

# set random seed for repeatability
np.random.seed(42)
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