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Month: October 2014

Ebola screening

By Monkey Posted on October 11, 2014 Posted in Commentary No Comments Tagged with Bayesian, disease modelling, ebola, public health, statistics

What are the arguments over ebola screening really about? Here’s my go at explaining, with a bit of help from the Reverend Bayes.

Bayesian statistics

By Monkey Posted on October 9, 2014 Posted in Glossary No Comments Tagged with Bayesian, statistics

Bayesian approaches to statistics use simple ideas about contingent probability (i.e. the probability of one thing, given that another thing is true). They extend these ideas to look at the extent to which we should believe one thing, given a …

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