The first meeting of Bayes Club Fall 2014 will be Tuesday 10/7, 3:00-4:20pm in Franklin 271A. We hope to see you there!
To whet your appetite, consider reading this recent NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/science/the-odds-continually-updated.html It’s about how Bayesian inference is all hot in stats right now, and everyone’s all like, “Ooo you can do Bayesy stuff? You’re soooo cool!” It also gives a nice, very general-audience description of the difference between frequentist and Bayesian stats (with a coin-flip example, of course. What is it with the coin flips?).
For another excellent piece of broad-audience reading, check out this article in the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2014/sep/28/belief-bias-and-bayes?CMP=twt_gu It gives my favorite (to date) common sense explanation of Bayes’ Theorem – and it does so without referencing a coin!
If you’re still trying to decide whether or not you want to officially register for Bayes Club (vs. just showing up casually), check out our recent post on registration.
Regarding the NYT article, people might also like to check out Andrew Gelman’s post about what he really said to the NYT reporter: http://andrewgelman.com/2014/09/30/didnt-say/
Thanks, Bob! Definitely worth a read.