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Official documentation for PyMC, the Python library for probabilistic programming, with installation guides, API reference, and worked example notebooks. Covers specifying priors and likelihoods, running MCMC samplers, and checking posterior results.

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Think Bayes 2e

Allen Downey's free online textbook teaches Bayesian statistics computationally in Python, with every chapter as a runnable Jupyter notebook. Covers distributions, MCMC, regression, and survival analysis, using code and simulation instead of heavy calculus.

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