Binomial distributions | Probabilities of probabilities, part 1

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Part 2 will be out soon. I'm going to implement changes based on supporter feedback, and in the meantime am also working on a video simulating epidemics. Thanks for your patience, and stay tuned! We'll also talk more later about how to address the ways this obviously simplified model differs from reality. First, we have to establish the basic building blocks to work with.

Some people have asked about if the smaller graph around 10:40 should actually be much taller, since “the area under it should be 1”. If it was a distribution, this would absolutely be true, but those two graphs are simply functions, where s is a variable, not probability density functions for s. To see how that pdf comes about, that’s where Bayes’ rule comes in, to be covered in part 2.

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I am a second year applied and computational mathematics student and I can say without a doubt probability is one of the most confusing and counterintuitive areas of mathematics. I can't wait to see how you approach Bayesian statistics in part 2. This video, like all of your others, was very enlightening and thought provoking.