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Back to the trickiest problem....
Have you ever noticed when Hollywood seems to produce two similar movies at the same time? Armageddon and Deep Impact. Mission to Mars...
Battle of the Bayes
Another repost from my old blog, this one on Bayes's theory. This is a core statistical idea in modern science, allowing you to compare...
The German Tank Problem (Part II)
Again, a repost of something I wrote about in 2012, the German Tank Problem. This time with a twist. TL:DR - the mathematicians win...
The German Tank Problem (Part I)
As part of my plan to get back into blogging, here's a repost from 2011 discussing a classic statistical problem. I followed it up a year...
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