# Recommendations for online rstan/brms courses

**URL:** <https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/recommendations-for-online-rstan-brms-courses/25329>\
**Category:** Modeling\
**Tags:** brms, rstan\
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/recommendations-for-online-rstan-brms-courses/25329 "2021-11-17T16:46:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![di4oi4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@di4oi4](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/di4oi4)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/recommendations-for-online-rstan-brms-courses/25329/1 "2021-11-17T16:46:17Z")

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I am an early career medical researcher (a non-statistician/non-mathematician) interested in applied statistics for tackling different analytical challenges in health data analysis. I am quite familiar with R (especially tidyverse) and also a bit with the brms package (tried some simple modelling). It seems that bayesian modelling offers great flexibility for all kinds of health care data, meaning that it would be a valuable career capital for my future. If I may, I have 2 questions:

1. **For a start, should I learn brms/rstan or both?**
2. **Could you please recommend good online rstan/brms courses to start with?**

_PS! I already ordered McElreath’s “Statistical Rethinking.”_

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**Author:** ![jd\_c](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.mc-stan.org/jd_c/32/16759_2.png) [@jd\_c](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/u/jd_c)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/recommendations-for-online-rstan-brms-courses/25329/2 "2021-11-17T16:50:56Z")

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If you are interested in applied statistics, then see my answer here [Beginner Advice - #2 by jd\_c](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/beginner-advice/23501/2)  
As you can see from the rest of the comments, there are many views on this!