Lecture 3: Normal Models and Predictive Distributions

Readings

• A First Course in Bayesian Statistical Methods by Peter D. Hoff.:
  • Section 5.1: The normal model
• Bayesian Data Analysis (Third Edition) by Andrew Gelman, John Carlin, Hal Stern, David Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald Rubin.:
  • Section 2.5: Normal Distribution with Known Variance (page 39)