Question

In methods named for this man, plate notation simplifies repetitive parts of PGMs. This man’s namesake “regret” is bounded through (10[1])Thompson sampling, which applies a statement named for him after (-5[1])each step. In models named for him, (10[1])colliders and non-colliders (10[1])are (10[1])used to determine whether two vertices are d-separated. A data structure named for this man is used in his “variational” method, which is applied to models like latent Dirichlet (“dee-rick-LAY”) allocation. It’s not Schwarz, (10[1])but the Akaike (“ah-kah-EE-kay”) information (10[2])criterion (10[1])penalizes (10[1])complexity (10[1])less strongly (10[1])than (10[1])this man’s namesake model selection (10[1])criterion. MAP estimates are generated through this man’s namesake inference, (10[2])in (10[1])contrast (10[1])to MLE (10[1])estimates (10[1])generated through frequentist (10[3])inference. (10[1])For 10 points, what statistician (10[1])names a statement that relates prior and posterior conditional probabilities? ■END■

ANSWER: Thomas Bayes [accept Bayesian inference or Bayesian regret or Bayesian network or Bayes network or variational Bayesian methods or Bayes information criteria or Bayes theorem/law/rule; prompt on VB or BIC]
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= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%4%82.83

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
David BassJohns HopkinsTexas1910
Tim MorrisonStanfordUC Berkeley A29-5
Isaac MammelMarylandRIT3610
Geoffrey WuColumbia AToronto A3910
Liam KusalikWaterloo AIllinois A4010
Nathan SheffieldMITMinnesota7310
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AWUSTL A7710
Parth JagtapToronto CCornell A7710
Adam FineChicago AIndiana7810
Ryan RosenbergNYUOttawa7910
Thomas TibbettsUCFVirginia8010
Yash MandaviaIllinois BMichigan8210
Liam StarnesChicago BVirginia Tech8310
Julian BushlowCornell BVanderbilt8810
Vikshar AthreyaRutgersNorthwestern9810
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BWaterloo B9810
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StatePenn State9910
Rohan DalalGeorgia TechToronto B10010
Henry BonWinona StateNorth Carolina B10210
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AStanford10310
John John GrogerWUSTL BFlorida10610
Conor ThompsonIowa StateHarvard10610
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEYale10610
Tai BelkeBritish ColumbiaArizona State10710
Roxanne TangOhio StateColumbia B11210