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2017-06-23: Sportscasters don't get shrinkage - a primer on Bayesian reasoning, partial pooling, and borrowing of information #39

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mbjoseph opened this issue Jun 21, 2017 · 0 comments
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2017-06-23: Sportscasters don't get shrinkage - a primer on Bayesian reasoning, partial pooling, and borrowing of information #39

mbjoseph opened this issue Jun 21, 2017 · 0 comments

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This week I'll be talking a bit about how Bayesian thinking can help make sense of multi-group data with unbalanced sample sizes. NBA freethrow statistics and media coverage is reliably bad because people don't understand the concept of statistical shrinkage, a concept which has deep roots in Bayesian inference, and appeals to common sense.

Where: SEEC S340
When: Friday June 23
@mbjoseph mbjoseph changed the title 2017-07-23: Sportscasters don't get shrinkage - a primer on Bayesian reasoning, partial pooling, and borrowing of information 2017-06-23: Sportscasters don't get shrinkage - a primer on Bayesian reasoning, partial pooling, and borrowing of information Jun 28, 2017
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