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Maximum Entropy
Personal blog · maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.comsciencemathdata
Maximum Entropy is a personal blog at maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.com about science, math and data. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on frequentist versus Bayesian statistics. The post argues that Bayesian methods are better even for the Higgs boson experiment, which used p-values.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about science, statistics, Bayesian inference, and rationality.
What Hacker News says?
If you want to know: do Higgs Bosons exist, you can go frequentist or bayesian: Wasserman: p-value is fine for Higgs experiment: https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/the-higgs-bos... Tom Campbell-Ricketts: Bayes is better even for Higgs experiment https://maximum-entropy-blog.blogspot.com/2012/07/higgs-boso... My take: frequentist p-value is simpler but Bayes is what you really want.
Comment linking /2012/07/higgs-boson-at-5-sigmas.html
on “Not Frequentist Enough”Submitted The Higgs Boson at 5 Sigmas (2012) as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entropy Games as a story · 1 points
HN discussion