Bayesian stats book banned in China
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Bayesian stats book banned in China
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Re: Bayesian stats book banned in China
#2Pfft, frequentists.
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#3Is there any way to find out the specific reason the book was not allowed to be published?
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#4Strange that it was banned. Maybe it had to do with the vignettes---some of the examples are from political science (e.g., election results, polling) and another deals with arsenic in drinking water...or maybe Hu Jintao feels the way to deal with hierarchal data is to cluster standard errors.
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#5I didn't realize that things in China are that crazy...
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#6Is there any way to find out the specific reason the book was not allowed to be published?
The author doesn't know, but he hypothesizes that it's because "the idea of prior distribution [is] contrary to Communism".
Re: Bayesian stats book banned in China
#7Is there any way to find out the specific reason the book was not allowed to be published?
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#8Is there any way to find out the specific reason the book was not allowed to be published?
Probably because they're using Bayesian filters on various security fronts: internal threat analysis, the great firewall, whatever side projects some bureaucrat is using to pad his income.
This is a problem with classification/censorship schemes: the censors/classifiers are all stove-piped, so their decisions come with a high degree of variability. The censor may well have been unaware that this is a whole field of work, or, is aware, but isn't responsible for the censoring decisions about all other related titles.
Re: Bayesian stats book banned in China
#9Is there any way to find out the specific reason the book was not allowed to be published?
The author doesn't know, but he hypothesizes that it's because "the idea of prior distribution [is] contrary to Communism".
Which seems more than a little ridiculous to me, but ... it is China.
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#10"I think that the next printing of our book should have "Banned in China" slapped on the cover. That should be good for sales, right?"
I would buy that in a heartbeat