beta distribution

An update on visualizing Bayesian updating

August 17, 2012 | Corey Chivers

A while ago I wrote this post with some R code to visualize the updating of a beta distribution as the outcome of Bernoulli trials are observed. The code provided a single plot of this process, with all the curves overlayed on top of one another. Then John Myles White (... [Read more...]

A slice of infinity

July 27, 2011 | xi'an

Peng Yu sent me an email about the conditions for convergence of a Gibbs sampler: The following statement mentions convergence. But I’m not familiar what the regularity condition is. “But it is necessary to have a finite probability of moving away from the current state at all times in ... [Read more...]

Asher’s enigma

July 25, 2010 | xi'an

On his Probability and statistics blog, Matt Asher put a funny question (with my rephrasing): Take a unit square. Now pick two spots at random along the perimeter, uniformly. For each of these two locations, pick another random point from one of the three other sides of the square and ... [Read more...]

Weekend art in R (part 1?)

May 29, 2010 | Matt Asher

As usual click on the image for a full-size version. Code: par(bg="black") par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) plot(c(0,1),c(0,1),col="white",pch=".",xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1)) iters = 500 for(i in 1:iters) { center = runif(2) size = rbeta(2,1,50)   # Let's create random HTML-style colors color = sample(c(0:9,"A","B","C","D","E","F"),12,... [Read more...]

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