Understanding Credibility Theory in Actuarial Science

Discover how credibility theory helps actuaries use historical data to estimate risks and set insurance premiums; learn how ...
Mother Jones

What’s the Deal With Bayesian Statistics?

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It is really, really hard to find stuff to write about other than the C19 pandemic.
Nature

Bayesian Statistics and Inference

Bayesian statistics represents a powerful framework for data analysis that centres on Bayes’ theorem, enabling researchers to update existing beliefs with incoming evidence. By combining prior ...
FiveThirtyEight

What Bayesian Statistics Can Do For You

Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...
JSTOR Daily

Are There Still Things to Do in Bayesian Statistics?

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract From the outside, Bayesian statistics may seem like a closed little corner of probability. Once a prior is specified you compute! From the ...
insideHPC

Book Review: Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt

“Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, Lego, and Rubber Ducks,” by Will Kurt (2019 No Starch Press) is an excellent introduction to subjects ...
JSTOR Daily

Relevant statistics for Bayesian model choice

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 76, No. 5 (NOVEMBER 2014), pp. 833-859 (27 pages) The choice of the summary statistics that are used in Bayesian ...