Timeline for What is the difference between the vertical bar and semi-colon notations?
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| Apr 2 at 7:14 | answer | added | Ken T | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 15:33 | history | edited | mhdadk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Renamed the title of the question to make more easily searchable.
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| S Nov 12, 2019 at 16:28 | history | post merged (destination) | |||
| S Apr 29, 2014 at 19:52 | history | suggested | Alexis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited for grammar
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 10:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 21, 2012 at 17:00 | vote | accept | Abe | ||
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| Jun 21, 2012 at 15:29 | answer | added | PeterR | timeline score: 33 | |
| Jun 21, 2012 at 15:16 | vote | accept | Abe | ||
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| Jun 21, 2012 at 15:16 | answer | added | jbowman | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jun 21, 2012 at 15:13 | comment | added | jbowman | Good thinking, Abe; that's probably it. $f$ is more generic, I suppose. | |
| Jun 21, 2012 at 15:11 | comment | added | Abe | @jbowman why not post that as an answer? My only question is - why would they use both, but I assume that it has something to do with the context (the "|" is used with "P" and the ";" with "$f$"). | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 19:51 | comment | added | Michael R. Chernick | Yes jbowman is correct. We sometimes call it the density of X given Θ. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 19:20 | comment | added | jbowman | f(x;θ) is the same as f(x|θ), simply meaning that θ is a fixed parameter and the function f is a function of x. f(x,Θ), OTOH, is an element of a family (set) of functions, where the elements are indexed by Θ. A subtle distinction, perhaps, but an important one, esp. when it comes time to estimate an unknown parameter θ on the basis of known data x; at that time, θ varies and x is fixed, resulting in the "likelihood function". Usage of "|" is more common among statisticians, ";" among mathematicians. | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 7:11 | vote | accept | Learner | ||
| Jul 6, 2011 at 15:39 | vote | accept | Learner | ||
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| May 2, 2011 at 15:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackStats/status/65070870535745536 | ||
| May 2, 2011 at 15:03 | answer | added | JMS | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 2, 2011 at 10:45 | answer | added | Nick Sabbe | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 2, 2011 at 10:30 | history | edited | Jeromy Anglim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited tags; edited title
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| May 2, 2011 at 10:16 | history | asked | Learner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |