Richard McElreath | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 April 1973 |
| Nationality (legal) | American |
| Alma mater | Emory University (BS) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary anthropology |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Thesis | Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Boyd |
| Website | xcelab |
Richard McElreath (born 18 April 1973) is an American professor of anthropology and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.[1][2] He is an author of the Statistical Rethinking applied Bayesian statistics textbook, among the first to largely rely on the Stan statistical environment, and the accompanying rethinking R language package.[3][4]
He earned his B.S. at Emory University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in anthropology under Robert Boyd at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 with field research in Tanzania.[5][6][7]
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- ^ Sweet, Tracy M. (July 27, 2017). "A Review of Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course With Examples in R and Stan". Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 42 (1): 107–110. doi:10.3102/1076998616659752. ISSN 1076-9986. S2CID 125035918.
- ^ Gelman, Andrew; Lee, Daniel; Guo, Jiqiang (October 1, 2015). "Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language for Bayesian Inference and Optimization". Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics. 40 (5): 530–543. doi:10.3102/1076998615606113. ISSN 1076-9986. S2CID 220415167.
- ^ "Richard McElreath". www.mpg.de. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "Dept. of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture | Richard McElreath | CV". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
- ^ "Richard McElreath - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
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