Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science

Source for the book Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science: Using the Cardinal Virtues for Inference by David Kane. The accompanying primer.tutorials R package lives in its own repo: PPBDS/primer.tutorials (split out 2026-07 so that installing the package no longer downloads this entire repo).

• Book: https://ppbds.github.io/primer/
• Tutorials package: https://github.com/PPBDS/primer.tutorials (site: https://ppbds.github.io/primer.tutorials/)

Repository layout

• book/ — Quarto book source (*.qmd chapters, _quarto.yml, supporting images and data)
• guide/ — the authoring guide, shared by book chapters and the tutorials (the tutorials repo links back here)
• Class exercises live in their own repo: PPBDS/primer.exercises
• .github/workflows/ — CI: render and deploy the book

Installing the tutorials package

remotes::install_github("PPBDS/primer.tutorials")

Building locally

Render the book:

quarto render book