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When can a winner of the election be called: estimating population proportion without the assumption of random sampling
While following a recent election, I wanted to estimate population proportion of people who voted for a certain candidate knowing the sample proportion, sample size (and population size).
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Making a Bayesian prior from a frequentist result
How should one go about turning a frequentist result into a Bayesian prior?
Consider the following pretty generic scenario:
An experiment was conducted in the past and a result on some parameter $\...
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Convenient posterior distribution for homogeneous bivariate Gaussian model
For the model given by some independent pairs $(x_i,y_i)$ identically generated from a bivariate Gaussian distribution, there is the convenient semi-conjugate family of "Normal-Wishart" prior ...
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