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Think: Just Do It!: [PL 431] The Cultural Differences Argument

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Friday, March 9, 2012. PL 431] The Cultural Differences Argument. In "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism," Rachels argues that the Cultural Differences Argument is invalid. The Cultural Differences Argument is the following:. Different cultures have different moral codes. Therefore, there is no objective "truth" in morality. Right and wrong are only matters of opinion and opinions vary from culture to culture. Some people believe that the earth is flat. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). PL 431] Kant'...

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Think: Just Do It!: [PHI 3000] Does the method of cases rest on a mistake?

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012. PHI 3000] Does the method of cases rest on a mistake? In light of the excellent feedback I received from readers of the Experimental Philosophy. Blog, I think there are actually two analogical arguments that can be made with respect to the method of cases (i.e., the method of appealing to intuitive judgments elicited by thought experiments). Perceptual judgments : artificial perceptual illusions : intuitive judgments : negative thought experiments. This sort of negative thought e...

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PubMed Commons « Normal Deviate

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Thoughts on Statistics and Machine Learning. The Terminator, Statistics, Fair Use and Hedge Funds. Nonparametric Regression, ABC and CNN ». Don’t you wish there was a way to comment on papers? Now there is. Thanks to the efforts of Rob Tibshirani, Pat Brown, Mike Eisen, David Lipman and others there is now a system called PubMed Commons. But I don’t know of one for statistics. Congratulations to Rob and his colleagues on this new effort. This entry was written by normaldeviate. October 23, 2013 at 7:55 pm.

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2013 November « Normal Deviate

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Thoughts on Statistics and Machine Learning. Monthly Archives: November 2013. November 16, 2013 – 5:50 pm. I have mentioned Stein’s method. In passing, a few times on this blog. Today I want to talk about Stein’s method in a bit of detail. 1 What Is Stein’s Method? Stein’s method, due to Charles Stein, is actually quite old, going back to 1972. But there has been a great deal of interest in the method lately. As in many things, Stein was ahead of his time. Of some random variable. We want to bound. We ha...

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2013 August « Normal Deviate

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Thoughts on Statistics and Machine Learning. Monthly Archives: August 2013. Statistics and Dr. Strangelove. August 19, 2013 – 12:45 pm. One of the biggest embarrassments in statistics is that we don’t really have confidence bands for nonparametric functions estimation. This is a fact that we tend to sweep under the rug. Consider, for example, estimating a density. The kernel estimator with kernel. Let’s start with getting a confidence interval at a single point. Be the mean of the estimator and let.

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Dynamic Ecology | Multa novit vulpes | Page 2

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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Axios Review is working. And now it’s a non-profit. You should try it. October 17, 2016. As regular readers will know, I’m on the board of Axios Review. An independent editorial board in ecology and evolution (see old posts here. Axios Review has benefits for both authors and journals. For authors, the reviews improve the ms, and the referral process prevents you from wasting time by targeting a journal that’s too selective or a bad f...

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A ‘leave-one-out’ function | ecology & stats

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What I do here…. Who I am…. A ‘leave-one-out’ function. September 19, 2013. Here’s a little function I often put at the beginning of R scripts in which I’m going to do a lot of cross validation:. Loo - function(data) lapply(1:nrow(data), function(i) data[-i,]). It usually works pretty well just as is, but sometimes needs additional bells and whistles (e.g. K-fold CV). Its also stupid slow for big data sets, but its some nice sugar for most of my CV problems. From → R. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Aleph Insights: 'Confidence' and 'Probability': Introduction

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Wednesday, 18 March 2015. Confidence' and 'Probability': Introduction. Analysts, researchers, scientists and other seekers of truth very often wish to express a level of confidence in a probabilistic judgement. For example, most people if given some time to try out a fair coin will be happy to say:. This coin has a 50% chance of coming up heads in the next toss.". There is a 50% chance that David Cameron is older than Rick Astley.". Are you sure about that? In the next few posts. Is it possible to design...