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Re:Amazon data science interview questions on Sunday August 20, 2017 @01:43PM (#15059358)
Do you mind elaborating? I can't think of any methods that explicitly (or implicitly) use p-values. The only place in the industry I have seen p-values used is AB-testing, but most seem to be trying to move to a multi-armed bandit, bayesian methodology.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:56PM (#11408029)
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