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Note that its focus isn't strictly Bayesian statistics, rather than saying it's not a great textbook - it is, just perhaps not for the task asked
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I don't know if it's a great overall textbookIts focus isn't strictly on Bayesian statistics, so it lacks some methodology, but David MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms made me intuitively grasp Bayesian statistics better than others - most do the how quite nicely, but I felt MacKay explained why better.

I don't know if it's a great overall textbook, but David MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms made me intuitively grasp Bayesian statistics better than others - most do the how quite nicely, but I felt MacKay explained why better.

Its focus isn't strictly on Bayesian statistics, so it lacks some methodology, but David MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms made me intuitively grasp Bayesian statistics better than others - most do the how quite nicely, but I felt MacKay explained why better.

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I don't know if it's a great overall textbook, but David MacKay's Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms made me intuitively grasp Bayesian statistics better than others - most do the how quite nicely, but I felt MacKay explained why better.