Tag: Bayesian inference

• The priors don’t lie: all the ladies love Bayesian statistics

  Statistics is rarely sexy, sometimes satisfying, occasionally misused, but useful enough that more people should know how to use it than do. (Insert obvious condom joke here.) However, a particular method in statistics got additional attention last fall during the United States national elections: Bayesian inference. I wrote two pieces last week, drawing from a […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  June 10, 2013

  Ars Technica, Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  Bayes theorem, Bayesian inference, mathematical modeling, statistics