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5 - Estimating Probabilities
February 25th, 2010.
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Nicholas Persaud
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Estimating probabilities and densities.
Maximum Likelihood
Comparing estimators
Classical approach: unbiased estimators
Bayesian approach: priors
Putting them together!
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(optional) Efron & Morris:
Stein's Paradox in Statistics
. Scientific American 236(5):119–127, 1977.
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