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Month: October 2015

A different type of pseudo

October 1, 2015September 22, 2016 ~ Boaz Barak ~ 2 Comments

(see also this post and these lecture notes) There is a longstanding feud in statistics between "frequentists" and "Bayesians". One way to understand these two camps is to consider the following statements: The probability that my paternal great great grandfather had blue eyes is 5% The probability that the $latex 10^{10^{10}}$-th digit of $latex \pi$ is … Continue reading A different type of pseudo

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