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> it always ends up being a straw man or a very fair critique of somebody not correctly applying or interpreting an application of Bayes’ theorem. I can't tell
by jedbrown 7y ago
> it always ends up being a straw man or a very fair critique of somebody not correctly applying or interpreting an application of Bayes’ theorem.
I can't tell from your comment if you're aware that Andrew is the first author of the leading textbook on Bayesian methods. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
- astrophysician 7y agoThat’s awesome, and maybe I misunderstand his argument (very possible, in fact my main reason for posting this comment). Am I not understanding the arguments being made here? I have not been following these developments regarding using Bayesian stats in QM, it’s just that if Bayesian stats doesn’t help us understand QM it doesn’t mean there’s a “hole” because Bayesian stats makes no claim whatsoever that it has any applicability to QM. Am I just not understanding?
- bjornsing 7y agoI very much agree. It’s well known that probability theory is insufficient to explain the evolution of a QM system (i.e. the Schrödinger equation cannot be expressed in terms of probability). This is an interesting fact about QM, but in no way constitutes a hole in probability theory or Bayesian statistics.