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by l3amm 5616 days ago
These kinds of things are why I hate papers with undetailed methods sections. Being too explicit in the methods section is obviously unnecessary (e.g. restating Bayes' theorem), however your assumptions and probablistic methods should at least be detailed in supplemental notes.
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Some of the errors are in applications of methods that I don't feel should be documented. I would be worried if I saw someone explaining what they did to find P(AB), even if their method were correct. Of course, I would be extremely worried if they claimed it was max(P(A), P(B)), as the original article quotes!