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comment How to uniformly project a hash to a fixed number of buckets
Thanks for insisting on that point, I re-run my counting on the hashes' first letter and it seems indeed ~uniformly distributed : {'a': 789, 'c': 769, 'b': 755, 'e': 730, 'd': 804, 'f': 749, '1': 716, '0': 758, '3': 734, '2': 735, '5': 787, '4': 756, '7': 771, '6': 721, '9': 764, '8': 765}. Therefore my question is more or less answered as I just need to project this 16-states random generator to a 100-states space, which can be done using the first 2 letters of the hash to generate an integer of range [0,16+16*16] and modulo it to 100. Mind if I answer my own question ;) ?
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comment How to adjust average rating for sample size on rating systems with more than two categories?
Right, more certain estimates should be given more weight. I suspect there are means to render this notion in the bayesian framework by playing with the risk functions. From an application perspective, you can naively incorporate such a notion by discarding (or down-weighting) items with less than a pre-defined number of reviews. You can also incorporate other elements like date of reviews, reviewers profiles etc. At a certain point you might want to switch to a Learning to Rank approach to combine all those elements.
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comment How to uniformly project a hash to a fixed number of buckets
I doubt there is a bug in the hashing algorithm itself. But I suspect the characters of the hex digest not to be strictly uniform and independently distributed.
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answered Introductory book for multivariate statistics
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comment How to compute median in an online fashion?
@Andy W, thanks too, those pointers are very good indeed ! Too bad the system didn't manage to find'em when I wrote the question...