QED

De Overcoming Bias blog geeft een leuke anekdote over Bayesiaanse statistiek:
I remember that in graduate school, Xiao-Li Meng, now editor of this journal, told me they didn’t teach Bayesian statistics in China because the idea of a prior distribution was contrary to Mao’s quotation, “truth comes out of empirical/practical evidence.”
Of hoe politiek zelfs een invloed [...]