Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Sure, I agree bad priors will give inaccurate inferences. My point is simply that to make a statement like, "an inaccurate prior generates many inaccurate inferences, and therefore it is garbage," one has to adopt a frequentist criterion for the quality of an estimator (like "gets good results most of the time").


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: