Sentences with phrase «really wide variance»

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A good example is if you try and fit a normal distribution to 10 data values using a flat prior for the variance... the final variance estimate you get is higher than anything that any of the standard methods will give you, and is really just nonsense: it's extremely biased, and the resulting predictions of the normal are much too wide.

A good example is if you try and fit a normal distribution to 10 data values using a flat prior for the variance... the final variance estimate you get is higher than anything that any of the standard methods will give you, and is really just nonsense: it's extremely biased, and the resulting predictions of the normal are much too wide.