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This is a _fantastic_ book. If anyone's worried it's too technical, I'd say that it's not as dry as it might look at first glance. There's lots of practical advice and there's actually not that much heavy maths.

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> there's actually not that much heavy maths.

Uh... sure if you know measure theory.

The later chapter especially in Dirichlet chapters assume you know measure theory.

There's little that can be said about Dirichlet processes without measure theory; fundamentally speaking they are random measures. That said, the vast majority of the book presupposes no measure theory.

I don't think this is true having read some of the later chapters and not knowing measure theory. And if you don't trust me, Gelman doesn't know measure theory either (https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2008/01/14/what_to_le...) and he wrote the book...

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