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Without specifically disagreeing with you, the real advance that led to the bloom in Bayesian statistics was fast computers. MCMC and Gibb's sampling, and varia
by skj 11y ago
Without specifically disagreeing with you, the real advance that led to the bloom in Bayesian statistics was fast computers. MCMC and Gibb's sampling, and variational interference are what got the intractable-when-useful field of Bayesian statistics back on its feet.
- arcanus 11y agoI think you are certainly right that computation has really permitted Bayes to shine. But I think the stigma against the study persisted for decades: we had Metropolis-Hastings in the 70s, after all. And as the book argues out, Bayes, even when limited to non-sampling techniques such as conjugate priors, was still useful for a variety of interesting problems in cryptography, search theory, etc.