Smokin’ Bayes Meets Logistic Regression

Example of Bayesian inference combined with a generalized linear model to compare mortality rates between smokers and non-smokers

I found no information whether Bayes was a smoker. However, I could estimate the probability of him being a smoker by combining prior knowledge (proportion of men smoking back then) and data (he didn’t smoke on the portrait). Image by Author

Some time ago, I was watching Smoking: The Dataset (This dataset was originally found in the mosiac R package.) series …

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