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Re:Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math by ikeboy on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:33PM (#19619158)
Yeah well there's a difference if you're estimating a parameter or predicting true/false on an event.
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Re:Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math by et2o on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @05:39PM (#19619219)
Not sure about that, think about the case of (Bayesian) logistic regression.
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