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Educational articles on Medium

In the short article "The counter-intuitive nature of probabilistic relationships", I discuss how probabilistic relationships can go wildly against the intuition we have built based on our experience with deterministic relationships.
  • The counter-intuitive nature of probabilistic relationships  

If y can be estimated as a linear function of x does not imply that x can also be estimated as a linear function of yTowards Data Science (2023) 
  • What can we learn from posterior distributions? 

A frequentist interpretation of Bayesian posteriorTowards Data Science (2022) 
  • What does the h-index tell us that we could not know without it? 

A theoretical and empirical investigation of the additional information the h-index contains and cannot be found in the total number of citationsTowards Data Science (2021) 
  • What if everything was about reward prediction error? 

A note on how our lives would look like if we could perceive joy only by our errors in predicting rewardsThe Startup (2020)
  • Why does the optimal policy exist? 

A proof of the existence of the optimal policy for finite MDPsTowards Data Science (2020) 
  • Lady tasting tea: A Bayesian approach 

An introduction to and a comparison between Bayesian and frequentist methods for hypothesis testingTowards Data Science (2020) 
  • Is correlation distance a metric? 

The Startup (2020) 
  • A misinterpretation of correlations 

What do we know about the correlation of two random variables given their correlations with a 3rd one?Towards Data Science (2020) 
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