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2 unusual facts about Bayesian inference


Bayesian inference

Applications which make use of Bayesian inference for spam filtering include CRM114, DSPAM, Bogofilter, SpamAssassin, SpamBayes, and Mozilla.

David Alan Johnson

In his first book, Hume, Holism, and Miracles, Johnson purports to have refuted David Hume's popular argument for the irrationality of belief in testimony of miracles (as can be found in his essay entitled "Of Miracles") as well as several reconstructions of Hume's argument (most notably that of Bayesian philosopher Jordan Howard Sobel).


Frédéric Y. Bois

During a joint appointment at the California Environmental Protection Agency and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he developed, in collaboration with Andrew Gelman, the application of Bayesian numerical approaches to multilevel PBPK models.

Hoff crab

Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA gene and a range of other anomuran crustaceans, using Bayesian inference, places this species from the East Scotia Ridge as a sister taxon to Kiwa hirsuta, with a sequence divergence from this species of 6.45%, which is consistent for within-genus divergence in squat lobsters.

Ludic fallacy

In Bayesian statistics, this can be modelled by using a prior distribution for one's assumptions on the fairness of the coin, then Bayesian inference to update this distribution.

NewLISP

It also provides the functions expected of a modern scripting language, including support for regular expressions, XML, Unicode (UTF-8), TCP/IP and UDP networking, matrix and array processing, advanced math, statistics and Bayesian statistical analysis, financial mathematics, and distributed computing support.


see also

Bayesian inference in marketing

Bayesian inference has experienced spikes in popularity as it has been seen as vague and controversial by rival frequentist statisticians.

Institute of Social Sciences, Agra

programme in Statistics The main areas of research are sample surveys, design of experiment, statistical inference, Bayesian Inference, Population studies, Biostatistics, Econometric, Data mining, Operation research, marketing and business Statistics.

Variational

Variational Bayesian methods, a family of techniques for approximating integrals in Bayesian inference and machine learning