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Feb 14 - probability

I've posted my version of the answers to the homework due today.

Discuss conditional probability and Bayes rule. Here are a few sources.

If there's time, start discussing hypothesis testing (chap 7 in the text, though I think his discussion of these topics is not the clearest).

Here are a few sources.

I have found many of the explanations of these ideas to be somewhat bewildering. My experience is that it takes examples and working through practice problems on your own to see how this games works.

The terms you want to understand are

Read about this stuff. We'll do a few examples for Tuesday. I'll come up with an assignment for next Friday

The book also discusses "Bayesian inference" briefly, which I will (briefly) go over - at least the idea - but don't expect to use this semester.

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