Probability

Thoughts, essays, etc. A blog by Samuel Weisenthal.

  • 7/30/2023

    Bleeding vs. clotting

  • 7/16/2023

    The added utility from ordering a test

  • Relative sparsity for medical decision problems
    6/20/2023

    Relative sparsity for medical decision problems

  • 6/11/2023

    Counterfactuals and expected utility theory

  • 6/4/2023

    Decision analysis reveals complexity

  • 5/21/2023

    The counterfactual must be recorded

  • 5/14/2023

    Responsibilities and protection associated with decision analysis

  • 4/23/2023

    History of decision analysis

  • 4/16/2023

    Why are all confounders needed?

  • 4/2/2023

    Estimating expected reward using data

  • 3/26/2023

    Some benefits of decision analysis

  • 3/19/2023

    Difficulties with decision analysis

  • 3/5/2023

    Seven steps to formalizing medical decisions

  • 2/26/2023

    Importance sampling, inverse probability weighting, and off-policy reinforcement learning

  • 2/12/2023

    Reinforcement learning in medicine

  • 5/25/2022

    ACIC 2022

  • 4/6/2022

    Cooperative learning

  • 3/22/2022

    Neat connection

  • 3/6/2022

    Per-decision importance sampling

  • 1/23/2022

    Covid-19 tests, the interpretation trap

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