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Fitting a Bayesian linear regression

Practice fitting a Bayesian model. This is the same model we already estimated with frequentist methods, so we'll be able to compare the parameter outputs later. The songs data is already loaded.

This exercise is part of the course

Bayesian Regression Modeling with rstanarm

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Exercise instructions

  • Create a Bayesian linear model, stan_model, that predicts song popularity from song age
  • Print a summary of the Bayesian linear model

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the model here
stan_model <- ___(___ ~ ___, data = songs)

# Produce the summary
___(stan_model)

# Print a tidy summary of the coefficients
___(stan_model)
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