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On Blogs

Reader, if I feel I must comply with convention. No doubt you have experience the birth pangs of new blogs many a time before, and at some point early on in their creation they spawn a page that attempts to justify their existence. I have so far put this off, instead seeding my blog with secrets and lies, but I have put it off long enough.

This post will not be about my delusions of importance, my swollen ego or my desperate clawing at the twin doors of love and affection. I shall take these as read, and proceed to the proximate causes.
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On Bayes and Me

This post carries on from my previous excursion into Bayesian statistics.

Bayesian Science

A mathematician friend once told me that Bayesian inference is the type of inference that fits in most readily with the scientific method (that being the method I am most prepared to use in the majority of situations). It is true that a Bayesian inference, if done properly, represents a mathematical version of an idealised scientific inference - we have some explicitly stated prior beliefs, based on previous evidence, and we look for data, in the form of experiments or observations, which are combined to form an inference. Lovely.
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