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Cyan comments on Bayesian exercise - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: RolfAndreassen 21 September 2011 09:34PM

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Comment author: Cyan 22 September 2011 02:56:33AM 2 points [-]

For probability distributions on continuous quantities (such as the proportion of launches that fail), you need to know how to do derivatives and integrals.