Comments on: How loud is the evidence? http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Gill http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-110405 John Gill Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:25:32 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/#comment-110405 Working with log-odds can also be convenient in software. You can sum log-odds without worrying about underflow, whereas taking the product of lots of small probabilities will quickly get you into problems. Working with log-odds can also be convenient in software. You can sum log-odds without worrying about underflow, whereas taking the product of lots of small probabilities will quickly get you into problems.

]]> By: Tim http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-62349 Tim Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:35:43 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/#comment-62349 It's a shame this doesn't seem to be more widely embedded. I don't care about how likely the data are under some bogus null; I care how likely they are to indicate a departure from accepted models. I think that most non-statisticians expect this as well, rather than the opaque and noisy inference generated by tests with p-values. Relevant: http://twitter.com/mdreid/status/25410699681337345# It’s a shame this doesn’t seem to be more widely embedded. I don’t care about how likely the data are under some bogus null; I care how likely they are to indicate a departure from accepted models. I think that most non-statisticians expect this as well, rather than the opaque and noisy inference generated by tests with p-values.

Relevant: http://twitter.com/mdreid/status/25410699681337345#

]]> By: Occam’s razor and Bayes’ theorem — The Endeavour http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-60138 Occam’s razor and Bayes’ theorem — The Endeavour Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:02:05 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/03/11/how-loud-is-the-evidence/#comment-60138 [...] How loud is the evidence? Blog posts on Bayesian statistics ? X [...] [...] How loud is the evidence? Blog posts on Bayesian statistics ? X [...]

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