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The Particle Filter … this doesn’t look like a phrase you’d expect to see on a statistics and operational research blog, maybe in a fluid dynamics textbook. Despite this, the particle filter is an incredibly current method of inference in statistics. The name is just a result of an old mathematical convention that has stuck
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In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was giving their cold war enemies the USA a thrashing in the space race. In response, president John F. Kennedy decided to focus NASAs efforts on getting a human to set foot on the moon to try and score a big victory for the Americans. This challenge was
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How studying the brain is helping to build “brains”. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ve probably heard of the terms machine learning and neural networks. Maybe you saw the media frenzy surrounding the Go match between GOAT Lee Sedol and the computer program alphaGo (If not, I recommend
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Bootstrapping is an incredibly intuitive and powerful tool in statistics. We resample sampled data many times to generate a sampling distribution for a given statistic from which we can calculate a standard error for that statistic.
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