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A Brief Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

This pdf text file gives a short introduction to the methods of Bayesian inference. It gives a simple example that deals with jumping a paper frog. The topics listed in this document include: An example, comparison of frequentist and Bayesian methods, credible vs. confidence intervals, choice of prior and its effect on the posterior distribution.
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Date Of Record Creation 2007-12-26 10:27:31
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Author's Name Floyd Bullard
Author's Organization Duke University
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Date Record Checked: 2007-12-26 00:00:00

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