Not a Research Blog
This is an archive of my old WordPress blog, Not a Research Blog: distracting thoughts on mathematics, modelling, simulation, inference, epistemology, causality, statistics, data science, science, and related things.
Archive
- About the old blog
- 2018-08-16: Tropical Bayes
- 2017-10-05: P-values, signal, noise and stability
- 2017-09-26: A sketch of statistics without true models or hypothesis testing
- 2017-04-15: Likelihood, plausibility and extended likelihood
- 2017-03-08: Some teaching material
- 2017-03-02: Converting sample statistics to parameters: passive observation vs active control
- 2017-02-27: Some reservations about Bayes
- 2016-11-08: Substitutional vs objectual quantification
- 2016-10-21: The tacking ‘paradox’ revisited – notes on the dimension and ordering of ‘propositional space’
- 2016-09-01: Hierarchical Bayes
- 2016-03-29: Linear or nonlinear with respect to what?
- 2016-02-14: Recent reading: a miscellany of slightly obscure things
- 2015-11-14: Conditional probability as the basic notion of probability theory
- 2015-11-10: Is this high-school mathematics problem well-posed?
- 2015-10-22: Asymptotics, renormalization and scientific theories
- 2015-10-13: Closure: objective and subjective, truth and approximation
- 2015-10-10: Causal recipes
- 2015-10-06: The ‘tacking paradox’: model closure and irrelevant hypotheses
- 2015-10-06: Model schema and the ‘structuralist’ interpretation of ‘for all’: the uniformity of what?
- 2015-10-02: Model closure and formalism in economics, and a topological metaphor for model closure
- 2015-09-28: ‘For all’ is not ‘catch all’: closure, model schema and how a Bayesian can be a Falsificationist