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Kern, John C. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
Bayesian inference on multinomial probabilities is conducted based on data collected from the game Pass the Pigs[R]. Prior information on these probabilities is readily available from the instruction manual, and is easily incorporated in a Dirichlet prior. Posterior analysis of the scoring probabilities quantifies the discrepancy between empirical…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Probability, Inferences, Statistics