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Bayesian statistics in the classroom: Introducing shrinkage with basketball statistics and the internet movie database
Author(s) -
Berg Arthur
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12220
Subject(s) - basketball , computer science , the internet , bayesian probability , intuition , shrinkage , code (set theory) , statistics , bayesian statistics , mathematics education , database , psychology , bayesian inference , world wide web , artificial intelligence , mathematics , machine learning , geography , archaeology , set (abstract data type) , programming language , cognitive science
Summary This article promotes Bayesian intuition by introducing the concept of shrinkage with some motivational examples involving basketball statistics of Rudy Gobert and movie rankings from the Internet Movie Database. Supplementary and fully automated R code is provided to allow students to explore shrinkage in this dataset on their own. The content is targeted at the first‐year undergraduate level. Students with prior exposure to R would most benefit from the supplementary R code.