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Question to HN: is there somewhere a dictionary explaining and relating terms, in applicable way, that everyone uses without ever explaining them, such as "prio
by wiz21c 5y ago
Question to HN: is there somewhere a dictionary explaining and relating terms, in applicable way, that everyone uses without ever explaining them, such as "priors", "posteriors", "marginals", "belief", "marginal distribution", etc.
- IdiocyInAction 5y agoThe first few chapters of many books about ML will go over these, like Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop.
- iflp 5y agoTry Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning specifically, as these are all about Bayesian reasoning.
- shoo 5y agoif you're willing to sink time into a lecture series, you may enjoy Richard McElreath's introductory lectures on bayesian inference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NEMHM1wDfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NEMHM1wDfI
- nextos 5y agoRegression and Other Stories by Andrew Gelman et al. is IMHO the best introduction to Bayesian reasoning without being overly technical, but still maintaining rigor and providing lots of insights about how statistics is done in practice.