• Neuroscience Researcher @UMich
• Study brain connectivity & psychiatric disorders
• twitter: @dankessler
• web: www.dankessler.me
• I use R for data wrangling and behavioral/fancier analyses (e.g. mixed effects)
• New to Stan and Police Shooting data

• Sociologist/Demographer
• Expert on Stan
• Well-trained Bayesian statistician
• Person of Color
• Police Officer

• Mike Angstadt
• Chandra Sripada
• Kerby Shedden
• Cody Ross
• AARUG & Ann Arbor ASA
• SPARK

• Review Cody Ross's Method & Finding
• Introduce Stan
• Anatomy of a Stan program
• Alternative Model for Police Shootings
• Our very tentative results

The US has recently witnessed a number of high-profile deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police.



There is a pressing need to study this phenomenon quantitatively. Why?

• Case reports are insufficient and could even be misleading
• Better understand the causes
• Help shape solutions