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What is Bayesian statistics?

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 1177–1178 (2004)Cite this article

There seem to be a lot of computational biology papers with 'Bayesian' in their titles these days. What's distinctive about 'Bayesian' methods?

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Eddy, S. What is Bayesian statistics?. Nat Biotechnol 22, 1177–1178 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0904-1177

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