Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 4896
3 votes

In what sense is the Bayesian posterior mean a “convex combination”?

Answering my own question: the posterior mean will lie on the locus of tangency between the ellipsoids centered at $y_1, y_2$ and with shape matrices $\Sigma_1^{-1}, \Sigma_2^{-1}$ respectively. See …
Ronaldo Carpio's user avatar
9 votes
1 answer
483 views

In what sense is the Bayesian posterior mean a “convex combination”?

I asked this on math.stackexchange with no response, I'm hoping someone here might have something. Suppose I want to estimate $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from two signals with zero mean, normally distribute …
Ronaldo Carpio's user avatar