statistics – Page 8 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite Work

By Andrew Fairless on March 29, 2022February 3, 2022

https://nickch-k.github.io/SomeThoughts/posts/2022-01-23-overdebunked/ Overdebunked! Six Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite WorkWhen healthy skepticism of statistics turns into worse statistics (and an excuse).Nick Huntington-KleinJan. 23, 2022 “Skepticism about statistics is good. However, justContinue readingWhat I Read: Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite Work

What I Read: Experiment without the wait

By Andrew Fairless on March 28, 2022February 3, 2022

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/experiment-without-the-wait-speeding-up-the-iteration-cycle-with-offline-replay-experimentation-7a4a95fa674b Pinterest EngineeringJan 18Experiment without the wait: Speeding up the iteration cycle with Offline Replay ExperimentationMaxine Qian | Data Scientist, Experimentation and Metric Sciences“Online experimentation is often used to evaluateContinue readingWhat I Read: Experiment without the wait

What I Read: Bayesian Geometry

By Andrew Fairless on February 21, 2022January 20, 2022

https://towardsdatascience.com/on-bayesian-geometry-7755abf9f4d2 On Bayesian GeometryGeometric interpretation of probability distributionsMichael Larionov, PhD “Bayesian inference is based on the fact that we often don’t know the underlying distribution of data, so we needContinue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian Geometry

What I Read: Permutation Tests

By Andrew Fairless on January 19, 2022December 11, 2021

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-use-permutation-tests-bacc79f45749 A walkthrough of permutation tests and how they can be applied to time series data.Michael BerkSep 21 “In this post we will discuss the basics of permutation tests andContinue readingWhat I Read: Permutation Tests

What I Read: How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions

By Andrew Fairless on November 30, 2021November 16, 2021

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-partial-credit-on-an-exam-of-true-false-questions/ How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions?By Terence Tao1 June, 2016Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics.Continue readingWhat I Read: How to assign partial credit on an exam of true-false questions

What I Read: Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversal

By Andrew Fairless on November 18, 2021November 16, 2021

https://jeremybernste.in/writing/ml-is-just-statistics Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversaljeremybernsteLos Angeles, 21 Oct 2021 “But in machine learning there’s a switcheroo—we select the sample of data first, and then we useContinue readingWhat I Read: Machine learning is just statistics + quantifier reversal

What I Read: Machine learning is not nonparametric statistics

By Andrew Fairless on October 20, 2021October 16, 2021

https://www.argmin.net/2021/10/13/prediction/ Machine learning is not nonparametric statistics.Ben RechtOct 13, 2021 “…I’ve been told by respected statisticians that machine learning is nothing more than nonparametric statistics. The longer I work inContinue readingWhat I Read: Machine learning is not nonparametric statistics

What I Read: Bayesian Media Mix Modeling

By Andrew Fairless on October 7, 2021September 21, 2021

Bayesian Media Mix Modeling for Marketing OptimizationBenjamin Vincent2021-09-17 “Fortunately, with Bayesian modeling, we can do better than this! So-called Media Mix Modelling (MMM) can estimate how effective each advertising channelContinue readingWhat I Read: Bayesian Media Mix Modeling

What I Read: Dissecting “Noise”

By Andrew Fairless on September 21, 2021September 4, 2021

https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/dissecting-noise/ Dissecting “Noise”By Vasant DharAUGUST 9, 2021 “WHAT IS NOISE? If two felons receive sentences of three years and seven years when they should both be sentenced to five, theContinue readingWhat I Read: Dissecting “Noise”

What I Read: Pathfinder, A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm

By Andrew Fairless on September 2, 2021August 17, 2021

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/10/pathfinder-a-parallel-quasi-newton-algorithm-for-reaching-regions-of-high-probability-mass/ Pathfinder: A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm for reaching regions of high probability massAndrew Gelman10 August 2021, 9:07 am “In the world of Stan, we see three roles for Pathfinder: (1)Continue readingWhat I Read: Pathfinder, A parallel quasi-Newton algorithm

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