inference

Maybe Businesses Don’t Need To Worry So Much About Inference

I want to talk about a misconception on the difference between inference and prediction. For a well run analytically oriented business, there may not be as many reasons to prefer inference over prediction one may have heard. A common refrain is: data scientists are in error in centering so much […]

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Frequentist inference only seems easy

Two of the most common methods of statistical inference are frequentism and Bayesianism (see Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches: Ask the Right Question for some good discussion). In both cases we are attempting to perform reliable inference of unknown quantities from related observations. And in both cases inference is made possible […]

Estimated reading time: 38 minutes

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Maybe Businesses Don’t Need To Worry So Much About Inference

Frequentist inference only seems easy

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