Researcher

Aki Vehtari

Vehtari coauthored the third edition of Bayesian Data Analysis with Andrew Gelman and other collaborators in 2013. He connects the book with online courses and practical statistical computing. He coauthored Regression and Other Stories in 2020 with Gelman and Jennifer Hill, and Active Statistics in 2024 with Gelman. Both address practical work with data and statistical models. Vehtari has worked with the Stan development team and ArviZ. He has also contributed to loo, projpred and posterior, tools for model checking, comparison and Bayesian workflows.

Works
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Timeline

  1. 2013

    Bayesian Data Analysis

    Vehtari coauthored the third edition of Bayesian Data Analysis with Andrew Gelman and other collaborators in 2013. He connects the book with online courses and practical statistical computing.

  2. 2020–2024

    Applied statistics books

    Vehtari coauthored Regression and Other Stories in 2020 with Gelman and Jennifer Hill, and Active Statistics in 2024 with Gelman. Both address practical work with data and statistical models.

  3. As of October 2026

    Inference software and diagnostics

    Vehtari has worked with the Stan development team and ArviZ. He has also contributed to loo, projpred and posterior, tools for model checking, comparison and Bayesian workflows.

Sources and credits

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