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ivan_k

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About ivan_k

Graduate student in applied statistics, with focus on genomics. I like mechanical keyboards.

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    Comment #11782255

    Wonderful tool! I can see myself using it every single day. Comment on usability: currently, different ports from the same domain name are recorded as different websites. I think i…

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    Comment #10635270

    If that is what you meant, than you are getting in the realm of hypothesis testing. The best equivalent of a p-value is then an anabashedly named "Bayes factor" [1], which is a rat…

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    Comment #10633879

    > while there is no such similar statement for a method that depends on the experimenter's personal beliefs The posterior probability P(H|D) is exactly this kind of statement. You …

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    Comment #10633834

    I am not sure what you mean by "the form of the theorem looks much more arbitrary ". The derivation of Bayes law comes from the axioms of conditional probability. Given two events …

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    Comment #10631523

    I would care to interject. First of all, you are right on several points. * Most of mathematics is the same in both schools of though, and the interpretations is not different. * S…