Thursday, February 4, 2010

It Depends on Your Posterior Distribution

. Thursday, February 4, 2010

Nerdy joke-question of the day comes from Double-D:

If you're doing a PhD in Applied Statistics, specialising in sampling theory, how many times do they make you write your dissertation?

(This was the basis of an actual conversation between me and a colleague, where we were arguing over what I believed to be an entirely sensible generalisation from a single case. He pointed out that he had a degree in statistics and thus could be assumed to have expertise in the area; I countered that he only had a single degree in statistics and would have to take his finals at least 30 times before I could be confident he hadn't passed them by luck).


Probably depends on whether you're a Bayesian or not.

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