Samit Ganguly·12h agoNested Sampling, ExplainedThe one number MCMC can’t give you, and why cosmologists can’t live without it
The Birdbassador·6d agoThe Most Criminal Town in AmericaMoses Chatterly had recovered from an initially somewhat mediocre class standing to score the highest in his year on the detective’s exam…
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Bjorn-Donald Bassey·Oct 27Bayes Statistics Part 1: Bayesian Models and ParametersA random variable is a mapping from the sample space of an experiment, S, to a set of real numbers.A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Learning RatebyNidhin·Oct 25A 95% accurate fraud model. 96% of its alerts are wrong.Imagine a fraud model that catches 95% of fraudulent mortgage applications and correctly clears 95% of genuine ones. By almost any measure…
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Brian James Curry·Oct 24Your Best-Looking Ad Channel May Be Doing the Least: A CMO’s Guide to Marketing Mix ModelingIn a two-year simulation, last-click attribution said branded search returned $13.26 per dollar. The true number was $1.20. What the…A response icon1A response icon1
InLevel Up CodingbyDr Swarnendu AI·Oct 15Et Tu, Brute?Here is the mathematics of why that is always true — and why love is just a very confident prior waiting to be updated.A response icon1A response icon1
Katerina Henclova·Oct 11Benchmarking Alternative Feature Selection Algorithms (Part 2: The Algorithms)The phenomenon of a dataset supporting several valid solutions keeps being rediscovered and renamed, e.g. the Rashomon effect, predictive…A response icon1A response icon1
InOverviews, Reviews and Advances in StatisticalbyIbiloye Abiodun Christian·Oct 11A Statistical Case Solution Review: Caution in Using the t-Test and p-ValueCase quote from LISA-FUTA’s Newsletter, Statistics in Education (July–September 2026): The last case concerned a newly commissioned road…
