Martingales and Bayes

• Overheard: "Result was not statistically significant, but only because my sample size was not big enough!"

• Time course of P values is difficult to analyze, depends on parameters.

• Bayesian probabilities have elegant martingale property:

P(H) = E P(H | data)

(“Law of total probability,” again.)

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