| bio | website | |
|---|---|---|
| location | Australia | |
| age | 27 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | 2 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 1,485 |
Statistics tragic, most definitely an objective Bayesian style statistician. I find myself quite compelled by the "probability as extended logic" philosophy, particularly the work of Edwin Jaynes. I have also derived on of the most important rules ever: BAYESIAN+JAYNES=JAYNESIAN. lol. But seriously, I am in awe of this guy: he is like the "Jesus" of statistical thinking.
I also quite dislike the use of the word "prior beliefs" which gets attach to prior probabilities in the Bayesian world. It brings over the wrong connotations - I think "prior assumptions" or "prior state of knowledge" better describes what is actually encapsulated by "the prior" of Bayesian statistics.
Which is worse: a frequentist who refuses to use prior's (but is happy to assume a likelihood) or a subjective Bayesian who claims that they can be whatever you "believe"?
|
|
Cross Validated | 9,370 rep | 2033 |
|
|
Mathematics | 335 rep | 110 |
|
|
Stack Overflow | 101 rep | 1 |
| Nice Question × 3 | Generalist |
| Revival × 5 | Necromancer × 12 |
| Yearling × 2 | Constituent |
| Popular Question × 2 | Caucus |
| Nice Answer × 9 | Enlightened × 2 |
523 Votes Cast
| all time | by type | month | week | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 520 | up | 228 | question | 13 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | down | 295 | answer | ||||||