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What does the prior actually do in a Bayesian analysis?
2020-12-06 bayesian prior posterior likelihood
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The importance of context
2018-02-01 inference bayesian frequentist regression maximum likelihood
Motivation When we do modeling it’s of utmost importance that we pay attention to context. Without context there is little that can be inferred. ... Read More
On the apparent success of the maximum likelihood principle
2017-07-28 inference bayesian frequentist regression maximum likelihood
Motivation Today we will run through an important concept in statistical learning theory and modeling in general. It may come as no surprise that my ... Read More
About identifiability and granularity
2017-05-06 prior regression marketing mix modeling modeling bayesian variable selection
Motivation for this post In time series modeling you typically run into issues concerning complexity versus utility. What I mean by that is that there ... Read More
A few thoughts on apparent bimodality for regression problems!
2017-04-09 prior regression modeling bayesian
Motivation Did you ever run into a scenario when your data is showing two distinctive relationships but you’re trying to solve for it with one ... Read More
On the equivalence of Bayesian priors and Ridge regression
2017-01-18 prior regression modeling bayesian
Today I’m going to take you through the comparison of a Bayesian formalism for regression and compare it to Ridge regression which is a penalized ... Read More
The truth about priors and overfitting
2016-08-31 prior regression modeling bayesian hypothesis testing
Have you ever thought about how strong a prior is compared to observed data? It’s not an entirely easy thing to conceptualize. In order to alleviate ... Read More
The insignificance of significance
2016-06-15 significance statistics p-value bayesian hypothesis testing
Statistical significance has always held a slightly magical status in the research community as well as in every other community. This position is ... Read More
About confidence intervals
2016-05-05 confidence intervals bayesian credible interval regression
Introduction Confidence intervals are as beautiful as they are deceiving. They’re part of an elegant theory of mathematical statistics which has been ... Read More