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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics — mentioned by parodysbird

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:52:38 GMT

Because the use of Bayesian models does not require Bayesian epistemology, which, unfortunately, a lot of people conflate. Here is a decent paper by a statistician about this issue: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3868

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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics — mentioned by usgroup

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:54:29 GMT

I think there is something to be said for when one first discovers Bayes; not least because its often presented like this article as a sort of enlightenment. Perhaps the finest work on the topic is probability theory by Jaynes; if the underpinning of the Bayesian sect was to have a bible that would be it and BDA3 would be its practical counterpart. I say this both owning and having read both and having invested a a lot of time purveying, learning and applying the Bayesian perspective. What Bayes makes possible, from an applied statistics perspective, is a kind of unification of a large…

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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics — HN submission

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:00:28 GMT

Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics

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