Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENWhat is meant by entropy in statistics?Ben LambertMay 15, 2018 15 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5EntropyInformation TheoryStatistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENWhat is a posterior predictive check and why is it useful?Ben LambertMay 15, 2018 11 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsPosterior Predictive CheckModel Checking
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENThe problems with using simple Monte Carlo to determine the marginal likelihoodBen LambertMay 15, 2018 13 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsMonte CarloMarginal Likelihood
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENThe problem with discrete approximation to integrals or probability densitiesBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian InferenceCurse of DimensionalityNumerical Integration
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENThe intuition behind the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithmBen LambertMay 15, 2018 32 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Hamiltonian Monte CarloMCMCBayesian Statistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENHow to do integration by samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Monte CarloIntegrationSampling
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENHow to derive a Gibbs sampling routine in generalBen LambertMay 15, 2018 15 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Gibbs SamplingBayesian StatisticsConditional Distributions
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENExplaining the difference between confidence and credible intervalsBen LambertMay 15, 2018 20 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Confidence IntervalsCredible IntervalsBayesian Statistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENEstimating the posterior predictive distribution by samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 12 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsPosterior PredictiveSampling
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENEffective sample size: representing the cost of dependent samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 17 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Effective Sample SizeMCMCAutocorrelation
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENConstrained parameters? Use Metropolis-HastingsBen LambertMay 15, 2018 13 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Metropolis-HastingsBayesian StatisticsMCMC
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to the Random Walk Metropolis algorithmBen LambertMay 15, 2018 11 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5MCMCBayesian StatisticsRandom Walk Metropolis
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to the Poisson distribution - 2Ben LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Poisson DistributionStatisticsProbability
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to the gamma distributionBen LambertMay 15, 2018 17 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Gamma DistributionProbabilityStatistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to the Beta distributionBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Beta DistributionBayesian StatisticsProbability
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to rejection samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Rejection SamplingMonte CarloBayesian Statistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to reference priorsBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsReference PriorsMutual Information
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to numerical integration through Gaussian quadratureBen LambertMay 15, 2018 26 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Gaussian QuadratureNumerical IntegrationLegendre Polynomials
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to Jeffreys priors - 2Ben LambertMay 15, 2018 12 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsJeffreys PriorBernoulli Distribution
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to inverse transform samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 11 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Inverse Transform SamplingStatisticsProbability
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to importance sampling - optimal importance distributionsBen LambertMay 15, 2018 13 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Importance SamplingMonte CarloVariance Reduction
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to importance samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 14 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Importance SamplingMonte CarloBayesian Statistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to Gibbs samplingBen LambertMay 15, 2018 18 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Gibbs SamplingMarkov Chain Monte CarloBayesian Inference
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAn introduction to continuous marginal probability distributionsBen LambertMay 15, 2018 10 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Marginal DistributionProbabilityStatistics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENEvaluating model fit through AIC, DIC, WAIC and LOO-CVBen LambertMay 3, 2018 11 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5AICDICWAIC
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENLecture 18 | MIT 6.832 (Underactuated Robotics), Spring 2018MIT OpenCourseWareMay 1, 2018 73 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Stochastic DynamicsUnderactuated RoboticsProbability Distributions
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENThe syllabus covered by the book and YouTube courseBen LambertApril 30, 2018 15 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayesian StatisticsTextbookCourse Overview
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENLecture 2 | MIT 6.832 (Underactuated Robotics), Spring 2018Russ TedrakeFebruary 8, 2018 69 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5DynamicsStabilityPendulum
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENThéorème de BayesThierry AncelleOctober 11, 2017 15 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Bayes' TheoremProbabilityConditional Probability
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2016 Lecture 17 Probability 1 default c543378dRyan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 77 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5ProbabilityLectureMathematics
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2015 Lecture 23 Linear Algebra defaultRyan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 73 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Linear AlgebraEigenvaluesEigenvectors
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2015 Lecture 18 Probability 2Ryan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 80 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5ProbabilityRandom VariablesExpectation
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2015 Lecture 17 Probability 1 defaultRyan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 78 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5ProbabilityRandomized AlgorithmsComputer Science
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2015 Lecture 16 Godel's Incompleteness Theorems defaultRyan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 78 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5GödelIncompletenessLogic
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2013 Lecture 18: Random WalksRyan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 78 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Markov ChainsRandom WalksStochastic Processes
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENSpring 2013 Lecture 15 Polynomials default ee567245Ryan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 73 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5PolynomialsFieldsFinite Fields
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENGreat Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science: Number Theory (Spring 2015)Ryan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 80 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Number TheoryAlgorithmsPrimality Testing
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENGreat Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (Spring 2013)Ryan O'DonnellJuly 15, 2017 69 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5GödelIncompletenessTuring Machine
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAnalysis of Boolean Functions at CMU - Lecture 22: Sanders's TheoremRyan O'DonnellJuly 12, 2017 75 min★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5Sanders's TheoremAdditive CombinatoricsFourier Analysis
Formal & Physical Sciences MathematicsENAnalysis of Boolean Functions at CMU - Lecture 21: Additive combinatoricsRyan O'DonnellJuly 8, 2017 82 min★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4/5Additive CombinatoricsBoolean FunctionsFourier Analysis