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  • Posterior mean
  • “Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Inference”
  • Байес и базовые вероятности: как история помогает оценивать перспективы

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johndcook.com /3 days ago

Posterior mean

Common sense says that what you believe after seeing new data should be some sort of compromise between what you believed before and what the new data says. You don’t want to ignor...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 day ago

“Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Inference”

I took a look at the above-titled book by economists Duncan Foley and Ellis Scharfenaker. It’s an interesting read, in many ways a throwback to the 1950s when a group of mathematic...

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habr.com /3 weeks ago

Байес и базовые вероятности: как история помогает оценивать перспективы

Почему одни люди точнее прогнозируют будущее, чем другие? Дело не только в интеллекте или объёме информации. Главное преимущество суперпрогнозистов - байесовское мышление: новая ин...

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towardsdatascience.com /1 month ago

Bayesian Networks and Markov Networks: An Intuitive Guide to Structured Uncertainty

An intuitive introduction to reasoning with uncertainty, from directed Bayesian networks to undirected Markov networks and weighted logical rules. The post Bayesian Networks and Ma...

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johndcook.com /3 days ago

Posterior variance

A few days ago I wrote a post entitled Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?. In a nutshell, the answer is no, not always. That led the previous post which looked...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /3 weeks ago

Workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI

Esmeralda Whitammer, Sara Wade, Vincent Fortuin, Konstantina Palla, and Theodore Papamarkou write: We are organising a focused workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /2 weeks ago

Bayesian Workflow exists as a physical book!

We’re very excited about this book. It’s the result of several years of effort. You can order from the publisher or from Amazon. Here’s the book’s webpage, which includes the data...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 day ago

Survey Statistics: quantifying uncertainty in ranked choice voting polls

We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new pape...

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kdnuggets.com /1 week ago

10 Probability Concepts for Machine Learning Explained Simply

A model is almost never 100% sure of anything. These 10 probability concepts explain how it makes decisions anyway.

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medcitynews.com /4 weeks ago

The FDA’s Bayesian Guidance Could Quietly Reshape Clinical Trial Design

New FDA guidance on the use of Bayesian statistics signals a broader shift in accommodating more flexible clinical trial designs and the complexities of diseases such as certain ca...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Stein’s method, learning and inference -or- how to really monitor convergence and thin chains

This post is from Bob. I’ve been thinking a lot about scores (gradients of the log density function) and how they can be used for convergence monitoring. We know that the expected...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Survey Statistics: should MRP workflow include LOCO-CV ?

Due tomorrow (June 10): Enter a contest for Alexandre Andorra’s interview of Aki, Richard, and Andrew about their new book Bayesian Workflow. I hope folks ask about evaluating MRP...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

MrPlew: Locally Equivalent Weights for Multilevel Regression and Poststratification

Ryan Giordano, Alice Cima, Jared Murray, Erin Hartman, and Avi Feller write: Multilevel regression and poststratification (MrP) has become a workhorse method for estimating populat...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Efficient sequential Bayesian inference for state-space epidemic models using ensemble data assimilation

by Dhorasso Temfack, Jason Wyse Estimating latent epidemic states and model parameters from partially observed, noisy data remains a major challenge in infectious disease modeling...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

A multilevel hierarchical framework for quantification of experimental heterogeneity in population snapshot data

by David J. Warne, Xiangrun Zhu, Thomas P. Steele, Stuart T. Johnston, Scott A. Sisson, Matthew Faria, Ryan J. Murphy, Alexander P. Browning Biological systems exhibit substantial...

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medium.com /1 day ago

Beyond Guesswork — Bayesian Budget Allocation for Paid Search

Using artificial intelligence to decide where the next Euro goes.Continue reading on Berlin Tech Blog (by mobile.de & Kleinanzeigen) »

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towardsdatascience.com /1 month ago

How to Mathematically Choose the Optimal Bins for Your Histogram

Optimal Resolution in Histograms: A Rigorous Bayesian Approach to Density Fitting The post How to Mathematically Choose the Optimal Bins for Your Histogram appeared first on Toward...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /3 weeks ago

Survey Statistics: perfect collinearity in the sample but not in the population

In 2019, Andrew blogged about collinearity in Bayesian models. In the comments, he pointed to an example from Bayesian Data Analysis, 2nd edition (BDA2). I think it is a useful exa...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 week ago

Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weights

Last week we talked about The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll: New weighting variable: support score = E(2024 vote | other X variables). New weighting method: energy bal...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Jonah’s seminar tomorrow: “Bayesian Workflow and the Software That Shapes It”

This is Leo. Jonah Gabry (Stan developer, Andrew’s collaborator, etc.) is spending the whole month of May as a visiting professor here with us at the University of Trieste in Italy...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

No, Bayes does not like Mayor Pete. (Pitfalls of using implied betting market odds to estimate electability.)

This one’s from 2019, but it’s worth reposting given recent interest in prediction markets. The story starts with a post from economist Greg Mankiw, who wrote: Who has the best cha...

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johndcook.com /1 week ago

Does additional data always reduce posterior variance?

A discussion over lunch today brought up the fact that additional data does not always decrease the size of a confidence interval. This post will look at this from a Bayesian persp...

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towardsdatascience.com /1 month ago

Learning From Pairwise Preferences: An Introduction to the Bradley Terry Model

How to Turn Simple Head-to-Head Choices Into Probabilistic Rankings The post Learning From Pairwise Preferences: An Introduction to the Bradley Terry Model appeared first on Toward...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /2 weeks ago

The optimizer’s curse

The above sketch shows a decision tree. The circles are uncertainty nodes and the squares are decision nodes. Read the tree from left to right: to start, there is uncertainty of wh...

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