Dilettant'n Data Science. I enjoy multiplying random numbers over and over again. #rstats and Python.
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Sep 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Smell BS in election models?
Well, most of them are way too confident and too volatile.
@nntaleb shows that one cannot invoke probabilistic thinking in one's forecasts of a highly uncertain election unless the forecasts are stable and around 50/50. Why?
Explanation⬇️
With a single event, frequency calibration is meaningless. Yet there are other ways to ensure coherence in one's belief.
De Finetti showed that coherent subjective probabilistic statements must imply a bet that precludes the possibility of arbitrage. Excerpt from De Finetti⬇️
Jul 20, 2020 • 33 tweets • 20 min read
I find stats talk around causality wanting: most of the time, the concept is simply side-stepped. To remedy this, I'll read through @yudapearl's seminal work 'Causality' using his 'Book of Why' as an interpretative key. In this thread, I'll share what I learn.
Bayesian Networks and Probability Distributions. How can we model a joint probability distribution in a computer? What is the probabilistic connection? d-separation and testable implications from graphical methods, Ladder of Causation..
Going over @rlmcelreath's latest book in #rstats. However, I am using #tidyverse tools. So far, I have watched the lectures, completed homework for week 1 and the exercises in chapter 2 of the book. Hope to make it till the end!
Btw, the book is amazing. david-salazar.github.io/2020/04/19/sta…
Week 2 of Statistical Rethinking! Lectures and homework completed. @rlmcelreath is equal parts entertaining and knowledgeable. Homework made crystal clear how difficult it is to set priors for polynomial models #tidyverse#rstats
Trying to get my head around fat-tails by studying @nntaleb's latest technical book. Replicated some plots in #rstats#tidyverse david-salazar.github.io/2020/04/17/fat…#rstats and @nntaleb's work. By fattening the tails, one learns that the tail events are convex to the scale of the distribution. Thus, the problem compunds: tail events have an increasingly large role, but we cannot estimate their probabilities reliably