Timeline for What is the intuition behind beta distribution?
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| Dec 16, 2021 at 15:49 | comment | added | ZAR | I believe there is certainly an opportunity to understand the distribution intuitively, as many of the above answers do, however, in practice, this answer isn't entirely incorrect either. Many times in practical math we add in terms (e.g. log, exponent, etc) in order to try to fit a theoretical graph onto noisy, practical data. You can then try to reason why those specific terms work, but in practice, we were just trying stuff out to fit our observation. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 2:21 | comment | added | benjimin | I disagree, but I have seen multiple external sources espousing this claim that no cute intuitive real-world pedagogical example exists for a beta distribution. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 6:57 | history | answered | user32038 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |