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New Approaches to Probability

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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In the second part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan go over the difference between frequentist and bayesian statistics, and how this difference applies to astrophysics and cosmology.
This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on May 13, 2016.

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
People
Luke Barnes
David Sloan
Keywords
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
Bayesian
statistics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 13/07/2016
Duration: 00:22:50

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