Trying to understand Bayes' theorem? Here, Luigi uses it to analyze banana-related kart accidents:
And for another quick and concise take on the...
0 replies - 1714 views - 04/26/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
Prediction intervals and confidence intervals are not the same thing. Unfortunately the terms are often confused, and I am often...
0 replies - 2523 views - 03/14/13 by Rob J Hyndman in Articles
Data analysis has to start from some set of assumptions. Bayesian
prior distributions drive some people crazy because they make
assumptions explicit that...
0 replies - 1960 views - 08/06/12 by John Cook in Articles
Occam’s razor says that if two models fit equally well, the simpler
model is likely to be a better description of reality. Why should that
be?
A paper...
0 replies - 4856 views - 03/24/12 by John Cook in Articles
In Peter Norvig’s talk The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data,
starting at 37:42, he describes a translation algorithm based on Bayes’
theorem. Pick...
2 replies - 31211 views - 03/11/12 by John Cook in Articles
