A curated collection of resources for deeper learning about marketing mix modeling, Bayesian statistics, and the methodologies behind Simba.
- Marketing Mix Modeling: A Practical Guide — Overview of how Bayesian approaches are transforming the MMM landscape (see PyMC-Marketing docs for worked examples)
- The Resurgence of Marketing Mix Modeling — Why MMM is experiencing a renaissance driven by privacy changes and cookie deprecation
- Lift Test Integration in PyMC-Marketing — How lift test observations are integrated as likelihood terms in Bayesian MMM
- Google's guide to MMM and Meridian — Google's perspective on how marketing mix modeling fits into modern measurement
- Meta's Robyn documentation — Meta's open-source MMM approach (ridge regression, for comparison with Bayesian methods)
- "Bayesian Data Analysis" by Gelman et al. — The definitive textbook on Bayesian statistics (advanced but comprehensive)
- "Statistical Rethinking" by Richard McElreath — An accessible introduction to Bayesian modeling with practical examples
- "Think Bayes" by Allen Downey — A beginner-friendly introduction to Bayesian statistics using Python
- PyMC Documentation — Official documentation for the PyMC probabilistic programming library
- PyMC-Marketing Documentation — Documentation for the marketing-specific library that Simba is built on
- PyMC Examples Gallery — Worked examples of Bayesian modeling with PyMC
- Understanding Media Saturation — How diminishing returns affect media investment decisions (see PyMC-Marketing saturation docs)
- Advertising Adstock — Broadbent (1979) — The foundational concept of how advertising effects persist and decay over time
- The deprecation of third-party cookies, iOS App Tracking Transparency (ATT), GDPR, and similar regulations are making user-level attribution increasingly unreliable. MMM's reliance on aggregate time-series data makes it inherently privacy-compliant.
- PyMC-Marketing — The open-source Bayesian marketing analytics library (Simba's foundation)
- Robyn by Meta — Meta's open-source MMM solution (R-based, ridge regression approach)
- Meridian by Google — Google's open-source Bayesian MMM tool
- PyMCon — The PyMC community conference featuring talks on Bayesian statistics and applications
- Marketing Science Conference — INFORMS conference on quantitative marketing research
- Measure Camp — Unconference for analytics and measurement professionals
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See also: Glossary | PyMC-Marketing & Simba | Core Concepts