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Adrian Smith on the power of Bayesian statistics

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Do You Have a Taste for Statistics?

In economics classes, is that where you develop your taste for statistics? Yeah. So we had the opportunity of an interview in our final year, where do you go from here? And I said, look, I was really good at probability. But I've enjoyed going to economics lectures and, you know, decision making,. economic decision making. The guy who promulgates it in the UK has just moved to university college in London. Why don't I phone him up and see if I can get you on to the master's course? And he did. You went down to UCL to do a master's in statistics.

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