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Introduction: Here are solutions to about 50 of the exercises from Bayesian Data Analysis. The solutions themselves haven’t been updated; I just cleaned up the file: some change in Latex had resulted in much of the computer code running off the page, so I went in and cleaned up the files. I wrote most of these in 1996, and I like them a lot. I think several of them would’ve made good journal articles, and in retrospect I wish I’d published them as such. Original material that appears first in a book (or, even worse, in homework solutions) can easily be overlooked.
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