Luke_A_Somers comments on Cargo Cult Language - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: SaidAchmiz 05 February 2012 09:32PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 February 2012 04:21:17PM -2 points [-]

I'd phrase it,

Precision is the reciprocal of the standard deviation of the estimate. Accuracy is the probability density of the estimate at the actual value.