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.