Knowing the contents of this chapter which introduce the concept of hierarchical model and its famous application, eight school model, itself is helpful enough!

5.1 Constructing a parameterized prior distribution

theta sim {Beta}(alpha, beta) -> theta sim {Beta}(alpha + 4, beta + 10)

5.2 Exchangeability and setting up hierarchical models

5.3 Fully Bayesian analysis of conjugate hierarchical models

5.4 Estimating exchangeable parameters from a normal models

5.5 Example: parallel experiments in eight schools

5.6 Hierarchical modeling applied to a meta-analysis

5.7 Weakly informative priors for hierarchical variance parameters