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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Bayesian Statistics

Bookmarks

  1. How Data Nerds Found a 131-Year-Old Sunken Treasure

    FiveThirtyEight on locating the SS Republic shipwreck using Bayesian search theory — the same framework used to find Air France 447 and guide military submarine searches. A clear demonstration that search is a statistics problem as much as a logistics one.

  2. Probable Points and Credible Intervals: Bayesian Decision Theory

    Part 2 of Rasmus Baath's gentle intro to Bayesian decision theory — covering how credible intervals and probable points are used to make decisions under uncertainty. One of the cleaner elementary treatments of the Bayesian decision framework.

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