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Old 09-23-2005, 10:08 PM
GooperMC GooperMC is offline
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Default Re: Wow was FCP wrong

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I don't want to be too picky, but for Bayesian statisticians, there is no "true" underlying distribution, just our conditional expectations. A Bayseian starts with a set of beliefs, or prior probability weights, and then updates those beliefs when they receive new information.


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That is picky [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. You are correct though.

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But this has to do more with philosophy than O8. I think we are both saying the same things using differnt terms.

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Ya.
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