Tag: bayes
Interview Questions
- Adverse selection when the prior is not 50/50
- Where does the price go after two buys in a row?
- A sharper signal on a bigger bet
- A noisy signal when the odds are lopsided
- A signal that cries "high" too often
- The signal is worth double if you can short
- How much is a noisy signal worth?
- The camera flags a blue jersey
- A positive screen with an imperfect test
- A fraud alert on a card transaction
- Testing positive twice in a row
- How accurate must the test be?
- A positive test for a rare disease
- A positive test for a rare disease
- Three sixes and the loaded die
- Which factory made the defective part?
- Three coins and a single heads
- Ten heads and the double-headed coin
- The forecast says rain, should you believe it?
- Did the student know it, or get lucky?
- Monty Hall with a predictable host
- The two-child puzzle and how you learned it
- Bertrand's box, a gold coin appears
- A host who might be clumsy
- Monty Fall: the host opens a door at random
- Monty Hall with five doors
- Monty Fall, when the host opens a door by accident
- The three prisoners problem
- Monty Hall with a host who has a favorite door
- The Monty Hall problem
- The spam filter and the word "free"
- One tails from a mostly-fair drawer of coins
- Two heads from a mystery coin, which coin?
- Three sixes in a row, is it the loaded die?
- Which factory made the defective part?
- A white ball, which urn did it come from?
- How often is a "significant" signal actually real?
- A significant signal, but is it real?