Time Series Modeling with HSGP: Baby Births Example

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In this notebook we want to reproduce a classical example of using Gaussian processes to model time series data: The birthdays data set. I first encountered this example in the seminal book Chapter 21, Bayesian Data Analysis (Third edition) when learning about the subject. One thing I rapidly realized was that fitting these types of models in practice is very computationally expensive and…

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