Skip to content
Do Your Homework for Class
BLOG EMAILS ARE NOT BEING SENT: Checking into it
William M. Briggs

Statistician to the Stars!

  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • Classic Posts
  • FREE CLASS
  • Home
  • Statistics
  • Page 220
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Direct And Inverse Probability: The Bayesian Way

Class is almost over! Just three days (including today) left. I'm way behind reading comments. All logic, of which probability is an example, begins with a fixed list of premises…
Read More
Posted inStatistics

Jumping The Infinity Shark: An Answer To Senn; Part Last

Read Part V From his page 55 (as before slightly edited for HTML/LaTex): Consider the case of a binary event where the two outcomes are success, S, or failure F…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Bayes Always Works: An Answer To Senn; Part V

Read Part IV. We're almost done. Only one more after this. There are examples without number of the proper use of Bayes's Theorem: the probability you have cancer given a…
Read More
Posted inStatistics

An Ensemble Of Models Is Completely Meaningful, Statistically: Update 2

The Answer to Senn will continue on Monday. Look for my Finger Lakes winery tour tasting notes Sunday! Several readers asked me to comment on an ensemble climate forecasting post…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

All Probability Is Conditional: An Answer To Senn; Part IV

Read Part III. Still with me? Hope so, because we're only on the second page of Senn's article (but don't fret; we'll be skipping most of it). Review: in logical-probability…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Probability Isn’t “Fair”: An Answer To Senn; Part III

A quick reminder that we're trying to unpack the meaning of the "is fair" in the proposition "This die is fair," and trying to deduce the probability this proposition is…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

There Is Only One Kind Of Probability: An Answer To Senn; Part II

Read Part I. Some of this material is explained in detail in this series. Just after the introduction, Senn starts his argument by claiming an "important distinction between two types…
Read More
Posted inPhilosophy Statistics

Bayes Is More Than Probably Right: An Answer To Senn; Part I

Stephen Senn very kindly answered a post I wrote on p-values (Unsignificant Statistics: Or Die P-Value, Die Die Die) by sending me his "You May Believe You Are a Bayesian…
Read More

Posts pagination

Previous page 1 … 218 219 220 221 222 … 325 Next page
Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,341 other subscribers
Tweets
My Tweets
  1. R W Pearson on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 14, 2026

    Three shots explained by Larry Correia on X. https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/2009732767249248405?s=20

  2. hudbwu on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    So we're just not going to talk about the three shots?

  3. Cary D Cotterman on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    No news source is perfect. Fox openly owns their conservative point of view. NPR lies about being unbiased. Even with…

  4. Randy Middleton on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    I saw this exact quote posted in a blog post from someone else. Captain: What we've got here is... failure…

  5. Tars Tarkas on Confirmation Bias In The Minneapolis ShootingJanuary 13, 2026

    "(I have in the queue a story on confirmation bias of academic Experts that confirms my bias that academic Experts…

Categories
  • Book review
  • Class
  • Culture
  • Fun
  • Philosophy
  • Podcast
  • SAMT
  • Statistics
Archives
Meta
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments
January 2026
M T W T F S S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  
« Dec    
Copyright 2026 — William M. Briggs. All rights reserved. Bloglo WordPress Theme
Scroll to Top