[R] the joy of spreadsheets (off-topic)

S Ellison S.Ellison at LGCGroup.com
Fri Apr 26 18:55:55 CEST 2013


 

> From a quick read,  the Excel error prior  for incompetence 
> looks high but some of the other issues hint that the prior 
> for the overall findings was remarkably in favor of malice.

That's p(malice|evidence), not p(malice); surely that must be the posterior? ;-)

'tain't a great advert for economics either way, though, however much fun it may be to apply Bayes theorem (badly, in my case) to analyse it. 

Steve E

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