Stuart_Armstrong comments on Why the tails come apart - Less Wrong

114 Post author: Thrasymachus 01 August 2014 10:41PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 July 2014 09:20:28PM 2 points [-]

How do I account for how many models I've tested? No, really, I don't know what that'd even be called in the statistics literature, and it seems like if a general technique for doing this were known the big data people would be all over it.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 01 August 2014 03:11:41PM 2 points [-]

The Bayesian approach with multiple models seems to be exactly what we need. eg http://www.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Research/PDF/socmeth1995.pdf