[extropy-chat] A Bayesian Looks at Climate Change

Martin Striz mstriz at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 13:30:16 UTC 2006


On 4/19/06, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
>
> Hal Finney hal at finney.org :
> >This should be part and parcel of the toolbox of the working
> >scientist, yet as Annan's experience shows it is actually quite
> >foreign to journals of the hard sciences.
>
> I see Bayes Theorem used a nontrivial number of times in the astrophysics
> journals. The cosmology WMAP people are well-versed in Bayes Theorem,
> (their frequency analysis code is based on it) for example:

Ditto for the few biological subdisciplines that are heavy on math. 
Bayes is one of the likelihood estimators in phylogenetics.

Martin




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