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Usage and meaning of specific technical words/concepts in statistics.
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What misused statistical terms are worth correcting?
Bayesian
Students learning it might not have trouble telling you whether something "looks" Bayesian, but ask them to solve a problem with a frequentist and a Bayesian approach and they'll probably fai …
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Is the bias of a coin a latent variable or a parameter?
Consider the standard Bayesian estimation problem in which the bias $p$ of a coin is picked uniformly at random from $[0, 1]$, the coin is tossed a few times, and $p$ is then estimated from the outcom …
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What's in a name: hyperparameters
The other explanations are a bit vague; here's a more concrete explanation that should clarify it.
Hyperparameters are parameters of the model only, not of the physical process that is being modeled. …
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Discrete analog of CDF: "cumulative mass function"?
I've never heard the term "cumulative mass function" before, and the Wikipedia page for it redirects to the CDF page, so I'm confused what the proper terminology is. …
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