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“Bayesian replication analysis” (by John Kruschke)

Posted on 1 September 2019 by

“… the ability to express [hypotheses] as distributions over parameters …” Bayesian estimation supersedes the t-test: (Also by Professor Kruschke.)

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Cumulants and the Cornish-Fisher Expansion

Posted on 27 May 2019 by

“Consider the following.” (Bill Nye the Science Guy) There are random variables drawn from the same kind of probability distribution, but with different parameters for each. In this example, I’ll consider random variables , that is, each drawn from a … Continue reading →

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