prior specification

[stephens999]

maybe need to edit these notes a bit - especially part on semi-subjective priors. Also to emphasise the power of transforming variables before specifying priors.

[JingyuHe]

Hi professor,

I found a typo in note 2 - simple examples of bayesian statistics

In the middle of page 5, the equation of density of beta(alpha, beta) is wrong. It should be $p(f) \propto f^(\alpha-1) (1-f)^{\beta-1}$ rather than $p(f) \propto f^\alpha-1 (1-f)^{\beta-1}$

Best regards,

Jingyu

[stephens999]

do you know how to fix it and send a pull request?
Matthew

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 3:23 PM, JingyuHe notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi professor,

I found a typo in note 2 - simple examples of bayesian statistics

In the middle of page 5, the equation of density of beta(alpha, beta) is
wrong. It should be $p(f) \propto f^(\alpha-1) (1-f)^{\beta-1}$ rather than
$p(f) \propto f^\alpha-1 (1-f)^{\beta-1}$

Best regards,

Jingyu

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