Grandpa - thrice, retired after 49 yrs as a pharma Statistician, more than 40 yrs promoting Bayesian approaches, 4 yrs as hobby academic King's Coll London
@ChristosArgyrop@f2harrell@5_utr When developing asymptotic approximations pre-MCMC I used
Minder, C. E. (1980). On inspecting multiparameter likelihood surfaces. Comms in Stats - Theory & Methods, 9(18), 1931-1939.
to assess which parameters had quadratic marginal likelihoods.
@jasonptodd@klaxaa This reminds me of a Granada documentary I saw in Manchester in the late 70s about 2 16 year olds from Leigh in Lancashire who'd left school, were unemployed & spent their time hunting rabbits with ferrets. Despite Leigh being only ~15 miles from Manchester ITV used sub-titles.
https://t.co/74p4GkD9Un
Interesting read, bringing together ideas/quotes from Fisher, Neyman & the two Pearsons, Gaspar Neumann & Edmund Halley, Rutherford & Einstein, Wiener & Kolmogorov, Chris Anderson (The Long Tail) & Winfried Stute & my school friend Douglas Adams(below) /1
The Dutch relatives have been on the phone, deluded as ever. I remember
1996 in a local pub in Walmer with a Dutch landlady. Wonderful atmosphere, wonderful win. Here's hoping for the same again.