The beta distribution

Definition Using the mean Using ranges for the prior Informative vs. uninformative priors Mean, median, variance Highest Density Interval References Addenda Definition The Beta distribution represents a probability distribution of probabilities. It is the conjugate prior of the binomial distribution (if the prior and the posterior distribution are in the same family, the prior and posterior…

RMarkdown to WordPress

One option is to create your markdown document in R, using \(\LaTeX\), knit to html, then copy the file content into WordPress and add at the top the following javascript code: This will load images into the blog post itself and preserve the \(\LaTeX\) formatting. I prefer to use the MathJax-LaTeX plugin, and use the…