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A better approch?

Posted By: Maik Stiebler
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 9:19 p.m.

In Response To: A better approch? (Timothy Chow)

I was taking it for granted that we were talking about a uniform distribution on a finite interval.

I agree that in that case it is not true that the posterior is a Gaussian. I also agree that a uniform prior on a huge interval does not make much sense when we are talking about backgammon equities, but priors like that seem to be common among Bayesian practitioners.

There is no uniform distribution on the whole real line.

I'm not qualified to discuss this, but I note that the authors of the slides don't seem to have a problem with that notion (see slide 17, which by the way is followed by another interesting result on the bottom of slide 19).

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      neilkaz -- Saturday, 31 October 2009, at 9:20 p.m.
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        Bob Koca -- Saturday, 31 October 2009, at 9:31 p.m.
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        Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 12:21 a.m.
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    eXtreme Gammon -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 4:02 a.m.
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      neilkaz -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 4:32 a.m.
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      MaX -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 1:19 p.m.
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      MaX -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 1:22 p.m.
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      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 5:37 p.m.
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        eXtreme Gammon -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 6:12 p.m.
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          Bob Koca -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 7:36 p.m.
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            Tom Keith -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 8:38 p.m.
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              Chuck Bower -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 1:20 a.m.
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                Jason Lee -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 2:24 a.m.
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                  Chuck Bower -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 3:06 p.m.
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                Timothy Chow -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 6:56 p.m.
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          Maik Stiebler -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 10:05 p.m.
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          MaX -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 10:15 a.m.
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            Timothy Chow -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 6:47 p.m.
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              MaX -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 8:18 a.m.
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            eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 7:26 p.m.
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              MaX -- Thursday, 12 November 2009, at 12:56 p.m.
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          Timothy Chow -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 6:40 p.m.
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            Tom Keith -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 7:28 p.m.
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              Timothy Chow -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 10:10 p.m.
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                Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 12:14 a.m.
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                  Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 1:29 a.m.
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                    Maik Stiebler -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 7:18 a.m.
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                      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 4:17 p.m.
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                        Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 5:23 p.m.
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                          Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 5:37 p.m.
                          • Aren't you two just particpating in the 250 year old fracas?
                            Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 6:19 p.m.
                            • Aren't you two just particpating in the 250 year old fracas?
                              Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 7:55 p.m.
                              • Aren't you two just particpating in the 250 year old fracas?
                                Bob Koca -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 8:29 p.m.
                            • Aren't you two just particpating in the 250 year old fracas?
                              Tom Keith -- Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 12:11 p.m.
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                        Maik Stiebler -- Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 8:40 p.m.
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                          Timothy Chow -- Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 10:09 p.m.
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                            Maik Stiebler -- Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 10:51 p.m.
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                              Maik Stiebler -- Wednesday, 4 November 2009, at 11:57 p.m.
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                              Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 6:52 a.m.
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                                Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 7:25 a.m.
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                                  Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 3:37 p.m.
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                                    Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 9:19 p.m.
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                                      Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 9:42 p.m.
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            MaX -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 3:04 p.m.
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              Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 3:47 p.m.
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              Maik Stiebler -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 10:01 p.m.
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                MaX -- Friday, 6 November 2009, at 3:31 p.m.
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                  Maik Stiebler -- Saturday, 7 November 2009, at 5:52 p.m.
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                    MaX -- Monday, 9 November 2009, at 12:39 p.m.
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                      Maik Stiebler -- Monday, 9 November 2009, at 10:59 p.m.
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                        MaX -- Tuesday, 10 November 2009, at 1:33 p.m.
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          Tom Keith -- Thursday, 5 November 2009, at 10:23 p.m.
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            MaX -- Friday, 6 November 2009, at 12:35 p.m.
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      Bob Koca -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 7:45 p.m.
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        eXtreme Gammon -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 10:03 p.m.
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          Bob Koca -- Sunday, 1 November 2009, at 10:30 p.m.
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      Mislav Radica -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 12:59 a.m.
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        eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 1:58 a.m.
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          eXtreme Gammon -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 2:00 a.m.
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          MaX -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 10:19 a.m.
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          Mislav Radica -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 12:55 p.m.
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            Mislav Radica -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 1:18 p.m.
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          misja -- Monday, 2 November 2009, at 7:36 p.m.
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      Neil Robins -- Tuesday, 3 November 2009, at 9:39 p.m.