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A Bayes by any other name

Posted by voracity on 22 January 2024, 8:00 pm

It can sometimes be hard to understand and remember the terms that statisticians use. This is understandable: statistics works with a lot of abstract concepts. But it helps when the terms are descriptive. For example, we have random variable: a value that varies depending on random events. We have estimator: a procedure or set of …

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