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### Estimate probability from sample frequency in a binomial distribution [duplicate]

If I get $s$ successes out of $n$ trials in a binomial distribution, what is the probability $p$ of getting a success in each individual trial? Presumably $p = s/n$, but what if $s = 0$ or $s = n$? ...
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### Bayes: posterior density, mean and mode [duplicate]

The likelihood function is $f(n_1|\alpha,n) = [\frac{n!}{n_1!(n-n_1)!}]\alpha^{n_1}(1-\alpha)^{n-n_1}$ The prior for $\alpha$ $g(\alpha)=(\alpha(1-\alpha))^{-1}$ for $\alpha$ between 0 and 1. ...
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### What is the intuition behind beta distribution?

Disclaimer: I'm not a statistician but a software engineer. Most of my knowledge in statistics comes from self-education, thus I still have many gaps in understanding concepts that may seem trivial ...
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### What is an “uninformative prior”? Can we ever have one with truly no information?

Inspired by a comment from this question: What do we consider "uninformative" in a prior - and what information is still contained in a supposedly uninformative prior? I generally see the prior in ...
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### What is the difference in Bayesian estimate and maximum likelihood estimate?

Please explain to me the difference in Bayesian estimate and Maximum likelihood estimate?
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### Choosing between uninformative beta priors

I am looking for uninformative priors for beta distribution to work with a binomial process (Hit/Miss). At first I thought about using $\alpha=1, \beta=1$ that generate an uniform PDF, or Jeffrey ...
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### Bayesian logit model - intuitive explanation?

I must confess that I previously haven't heard of that term in any of my classes, undergrad or grad. What does it mean for a logistic regression to be Bayesian? I'm looking for an explanation with a ...
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### Whence the beta distribution?

As I'm sure everyone here knows already, the PDF of the Beta distribution $X \sim B(a,b)$ is given by $f(x) = \frac{1}{B(a,b)}x^{a-1}(1-x)^{b-1}$ I've been hunting all over the place for an ...
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### How do I choose parameters for my beta prior?

Suppose today I'm going to flip a coin. I believe that 9 of 10 flips will come up heads. I flip the coin and 8 of 10 are heads. Is my distribution of belief beta(9+8, 1+2) beta(1+9+8, 1+1+2) beta(...
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### Posterior vs conditional probability

When talking about events, there is the following formula called Bayes' rule, where $A$ and $B$ are random events: $$P(A|B)=\frac{P(B|A)P(A)}{P(B)}$$ Now let's say that for now only $A$ happened. I ...
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### Estimation derived from ignorance

Is something wrong with the following reasoning? Mostly I wonder how could one derive uniformly random arrival from ignorance. But even if that derivation is invalid generally, it seems reasonable ...
Below (in R), I have two INDEPENDENT groups of scores that are binomially distributed. These two groups of scores are known to have different probability of success (i,e., $p_1 \neq p_2$). Let's ...