1 Software
You will need to have all of the following free software downloaded and in working order on your laptop.
Prior to first lecture
You must have the following on your laptops prior to the first lecture.
- Compatible version of R software environment
- Latest version of RStudio Desktop IDE
- Quarto publishing system (for documents with integrated code).
- You must have a functional PDF Engine to render Quarto (
.qmd) documents into PDF. See this section on PDF Engines, and be sure to test whether you can render an example.qmdfile into a PDF.
Prior to Bayesian inference
You must have the following on your laptops prior to the sections on Bayesian inference.
- Stan programming language, via the rstan package for R.
- We will potentially use the R package
rstanarm, but this is a straightforward package to download using theinstall.packages()function.