Bayesian Statistics and Singular Learning Theory

Bayesian Statistics and Singular Learning Theory

Oct 19, 2011, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM | 939 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Shaowei Lin, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
In Bayesian statistics, probabilities do not represent the actual chances by which events occur, but our beliefs about the likelihood of these events, and Bayes' theorem then tells us how observed data should be used to update our beliefs, i.e. how to learn. In this talk, I'll give a brief introduction to Bayesian statistics, and describe how the study of Bayesian integrals opens new grounds in...