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naath ([personal profile] naath) wrote in [personal profile] reddragdiva 2020-10-17 11:28 am (UTC)


http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/book.html

I follow... the easy bit, which is probability on the scale of "there are 10 red balls and 50 green balls", but get lost long before I could tell you how to replace a T test.

I had a low opinion of stats before I took his class, a lower one after, and a REALLY low one after seeing how any of it is used in the 'real' world of science... but replacing a bunch of poorly understood frequentist algorithms with poorly understood Bayesian ones, is in no way the answer to the world's problems.

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