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The most important distinction between the frequentist and Bayesian paradigms, is that frequentist makes strong distinctions between probability, statistics, and decision-making, whereas Bayesians unify decision-making, statistics and probability under a single philosophically and mathematically consistent framework, unlike the frequentist paradigm which has been proven to be inconsistent, especially for real-world situations where experiments ( or " random events ") can not be repeated more than once.
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Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.
In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.
True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.
Probably the most important thing to focus on is not the development of conscience, which may well be almost beyond the reach of literature, but the contents of conscience, the code which is imparted to the developed or immature conscience available.
Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.
It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.
Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.
In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.
Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
One of the most important is economic.
I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.
`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.
All this was unknown to me, and yet I had dared to ask her out for the most important night of the year!!
In this, as in so many aspects of our development assistance activities, the incentive effects of the posture we take are the most important ones.
Perhaps the most important incentive for them will be clear evidence that where other countries have done this kind of home work we have responded with long-term commitments.
Probably the most important of all matters for review are the broad administrative policies governing the purchase, assignment, use, and management of state vehicles.
Here the New York Central Railroad, one of the Nation's most important carriers, has alone lost 47.6 percent of its passengers since 1949.
In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.
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But the most impressive testimony to Schnabel's distinction as a teacher is reflected by the individuality which marks each student's approach as distinctly his own.
By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.
This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.
With the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.
However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.
The distinction between organic and inorganic disciplines is not absolute and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.
But most historians now make a distinction between medical lancing ( or bloodletting ) and acupuncture in the narrower sense of using metal needles to treat illnesses by stimulating specific points along circulation channels (" meridians ") in accordance with theories related to the circulation of Qi.
The distinction is most easily made when there are two systems such as New York's subway and the LIRR and Metro-North, Paris ' RER and Métro, London's Overground and the tube lines of the Underground, Barcelona's Metro and Rodalies, S-Bahn and U-Bahn systems in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich or Vienna, the JR lines and the Metro in Tokyo.
The distinction between organic and inorganic disciplines is not absolute and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.
The most obvious distinction between the two groups was the Churches of Christ rejecting the use of musical instruments in worship.
Spelling may also be useful to distinguish between homophones ( words with the same pronunciation but different meanings ), although in most cases the reason for the difference is historical and was not introduced for the purpose of making a distinction.
He proposed the reduction of the alphabet to 22 letters ( by eliminating the accented letters and most of their sounds ), the change of the plural to-i, the use of a positional accusative instead of the ending-n, the removal of the distinction between adjectives and adverbs, the reduction of the number of participles from six to two, and the replacement of the table of correlatives with more Latinate words or phrases.
Is the currently most advanced messaging system for Freenet, as it features random post delay, support for many identities, and a distinction between trusting a user's posts and trusting their trust list.
* simplification of the system of vowels and diphthongs: loss of vowel length distinction, monophthongization of most diphthongs, and several steps in a chain shift of vowels towards / i / ( iotacism )
Gardening for beauty is likely nearly as old as farming for food, however for most of history for the majority of people there was no real distinction since the need for food and other useful product trumped other concerns.
The most commercially important of these have the distinction of being impervious to thermal shock.
For example, in most languages written in any variety of the Latin alphabet the dot on a lower-case " i " is not a glyph because it does not convey any distinction, and an i in which the dot has been accidentally omitted is still likely to be read as an " i ".
The most common aspectual distinction in languages of the world is that between perfective ( complete, permanent, simple, etc.
The most fundamental aspectual distinction, represented in many languages, is between perfective aspect and imperfective aspect.
Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").
The most important distinction, both as regards numbers and its influence on the wellbeing of the slave, is that between house-servants and farm or field-hands.
One of his most notable achievements was to initiate the process of breaking down the preferential White Australia policy by ending the distinction between Asian and European migrants and by permitting skilled Asians to settle with their families.
Easily distinguished from most other endemic salamander species simply by their size — hellbenders average up to sixty centimeters or about two feet in length — the only species that requires further distinction ( due to an overlap in distribution and size range ) is the mudpuppy ( Necturus maculosus ).
Saint John, New Brunswick, claims the distinction of being Canada's most Irish city, according to census records.
The distinction between the two disciplines is far from absolute, and there is much overlap, most importantly in the sub-discipline of organometallic chemistry.
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