Re:Make up your own rules of probability
by l3amm on Monday January 31, 2011 @03:30PM
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These kinds of things are why I hate papers with undetailed methods sections. Being too explicit in the methods section is obviously unnecessary (e.g. restating Bayes' theorem), however your assumptions and probablistic methods should at least be detailed in supplemental notes.
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Re:Make up your own rules of probability
by krallja on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:54AM
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Some of the errors are in applications of methods that I don't feel should be documented. I would be worried if I saw someone explaining what they did to find P(AB), even if their method were correct. Of course, I would be extremely worried if they claimed it was max(P(A), P(B)), as the original article quotes!