User Juho Kokkala

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Is there any mathematical basis for the Bayesian vs frequentist debate?

answered Aug 18, 2016 at 5:30

25 votes

Variance of a bounded random variable

variance standard-deviation measurement-error

answered Apr 11, 2014 at 18:08

21 votes

Probability that the minimum of a normal random sample will exceed the maximum of another?

probability normal-distribution

answered Jul 28, 2015 at 13:55

20 votes

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Gelman and Rubin convergence diagnostic, how to generalise to work with vectors?

markov-chain-montecarlo convergence covariance-matrix

answered May 20, 2014 at 13:50

19 votes

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Does the Gibbs Sampling algorithm guarantee detailed balance?

markov-chain-montecarlo gibbs

answered Oct 9, 2014 at 15:17

19 votes

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Example for a prior, that unlike Jeffreys, leads to a posterior that is not invariant

bayesian mathematical-statistics fisher-information jeffreys-prior invariance

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 11:37

18 votes

What is the difference between "limiting" and "stationary" distributions?

markov-process

answered Jul 1, 2014 at 8:10

16 votes

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Can Hazard Ratio be translated into ratio of medians of survival time?

survival hazard

answered Apr 22, 2013 at 12:54

14 votes

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Is the machine learning community abusing "conditioned on" and "parametrized by"?

machine-learning terminology

answered Jan 1, 2015 at 9:48

13 votes

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What does it mean to integrate over the posterior?

bayesian prior posterior

answered Jun 23, 2014 at 12:25

13 votes

Does this distribution have a name? $f(x)\propto\exp(-|x-\mu|^p/\beta)$

distributions normal-distribution terminology laplace-distribution distribution-identification

answered Mar 10, 2016 at 19:11

11 votes

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Kernels in Gaussian Processes

gaussian-process kernel-trick

answered Aug 23, 2017 at 18:15

10 votes

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Confused about sensitivity, specificity and area under ROC curve (AUC)

cross-validation roc pattern-recognition

answered May 12, 2014 at 19:32

10 votes

Why do these statements not follow logically from a 95% CI for the mean?

hypothesis-testing confidence-interval

answered Apr 24, 2014 at 12:49

9 votes

Joint distribution of AR(1) model

distributions autoregressive multivariate-normal-distribution

answered Jul 23, 2015 at 10:36

9 votes

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Visualizing of $\sigma$-algebras as "information"

probability

answered Aug 21, 2016 at 6:28

9 votes

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Why is the Kalman Filter a specific case of a (dynamic) Bayesian network?

machine-learning bayesian-network kalman-filter

answered Aug 31, 2016 at 6:22

8 votes

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Island Hopping with Metropolis Algorithm

python metropolis-hastings

answered Jul 17, 2014 at 10:55

8 votes

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Explain intuition regarding probability of "next flip" when tossing a fair coin

probability bayesian intuition

answered Jun 16, 2014 at 19:52

7 votes

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Simplex Random Walk

probability metropolis-hastings random-walk

answered Jun 12, 2014 at 12:28

7 votes

Two envelope problem revisited

probability paradox puzzle

answered Apr 29, 2014 at 20:23

7 votes

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Meaning of partial correlation

correlation partial-correlation conditioning

answered Apr 23, 2013 at 17:09

7 votes

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Sum of Beta-Bernoulli variables

binomial-distribution bernoulli-distribution beta-distribution beta-binomial-distribution bernoulli-process

answered Jul 5, 2014 at 17:43

7 votes

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Meaning of syntax $N(\mathbf{y} \mid \mathbf{0}, \mathbf{K})$ (multivariate normal distribution)

normal-distribution gaussian-process multivariate-normal-distribution

answered Jun 12, 2015 at 13:26

7 votes

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What is the probability that a best of seven series goes to the seventh game with negative binomial

probability binomial-distribution negative-binomial-distribution geometric-distribution

answered Dec 1, 2017 at 6:13

7 votes

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Generating random numbers from a multiplication of CDFs

random-variable random-generation cumulative-distribution-function

answered Aug 3, 2016 at 8:12

6 votes

Bayesian online changepoint detection (marginal predictive distribution)

time-series bayesian inference change-point

answered Sep 14, 2016 at 16:01

6 votes

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Setting up simulation algorithm to check calibration of Bayesian posterior probabilities

bayesian simulation posterior

answered Oct 7, 2016 at 5:45

5 votes

How can I prove that the median is a nonlinear function?

median

answered Aug 30, 2016 at 7:57

5 votes

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Marginalizing a Poisson-distributed count parameter in a Binomial Distribution

probability distributions marginal-distribution stan

answered Aug 20, 2016 at 20:27

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116 Answers

Is there any mathematical basis for the Bayesian vs frequentist debate?

Variance of a bounded random variable

Probability that the minimum of a normal random sample will exceed the maximum of another?

Gelman and Rubin convergence diagnostic, how to generalise to work with vectors?

Does the Gibbs Sampling algorithm guarantee detailed balance?

Example for a prior, that unlike Jeffreys, leads to a posterior that is not invariant

What is the difference between "limiting" and "stationary" distributions?

Can Hazard Ratio be translated into ratio of medians of survival time?

Is the machine learning community abusing "conditioned on" and "parametrized by"?

What does it mean to integrate over the posterior?

Does this distribution have a name? $f(x)\propto\exp(-|x-\mu|^p/\beta)$

Kernels in Gaussian Processes

Confused about sensitivity, specificity and area under ROC curve (AUC)

Why do these statements not follow logically from a 95% CI for the mean?

Joint distribution of AR(1) model

Visualizing of $\sigma$-algebras as "information"

Why is the Kalman Filter a specific case of a (dynamic) Bayesian network?

Island Hopping with Metropolis Algorithm

Explain intuition regarding probability of "next flip" when tossing a fair coin

Simplex Random Walk

Two envelope problem revisited

Meaning of partial correlation

Sum of Beta-Bernoulli variables

Meaning of syntax $N(\mathbf{y} \mid \mathbf{0}, \mathbf{K})$ (multivariate normal distribution)

What is the probability that a best of seven series goes to the seventh game with negative binomial

Generating random numbers from a multiplication of CDFs

Bayesian online changepoint detection (marginal predictive distribution)

Setting up simulation algorithm to check calibration of Bayesian posterior probabilities

How can I prove that the median is a nonlinear function?

Marginalizing a Poisson-distributed count parameter in a Binomial Distribution