gwern comments on What Bayesianism taught me - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Tyrrell_McAllister 12 August 2013 06:59AM

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Comment author: gwern 11 August 2013 08:50:16PM 0 points [-]

In the CMU OLI course on statistics, Bayes Theorem is presented late on in the course, very briefly, and as restricted to simple population sampling; it's very easy to see how someone taking it could forget about it the day after doing the problems.