statistics

Tags: math

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-score

Base Rate Neglect

Example problem: given the question “is this woman a farmer or a librarian”, the base rate is that there are magnitudes more farmers than librarians, so the question actually reduces from woman farmer/librarian to any farmer/librarian, but the base rate is neglected

Elements of Statistical Learning Guide

• https://blog.headlandstech.com/2022/02/16/elements-of-statistical-learning-8-10/
• companion: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml

Bradly-Terry (and Plackett-Luce)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley%E2%80%93Terry_model#Plackett%E2%80%93Luce_model
• Ways of modeling pairwise/N rankings

ASHA Sycronization

• Provisionally promote trials on rungs, and then demote them. Works better than waiting on syncronization. For example:

  

  • At each stage, just kill the trials, barriers like

  

waste a lot of time