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The Data

We’ll use the Pulse data we looked at last class.

Our response (/target/dependent) variable will be Active, a person’s pulse rate after a brief period of moderate exercise (three laps up and down a set of stairs).

A Simple Linear Regression Model

Prior predictive distribution on the actual bpm scale

Now we’ll actually generate samples from the posterior distribution

As before we can examine posterior intervals for the parameters

Bivariate scatterplots of the posterior distributions

Posterior predictive intervals