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stephens999 / fiveMinuteStats

A repo of short "vignettes" illustrating statistical concepts
http://stephens999.github.io/fiveMinuteStats
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the log(sum(exp(log))) trick #56

Open stephens999 opened 3 years ago

stephens999 commented 3 years ago

it would be nice to have a separate vignette explaining this currently covered here:

https://stephens999.github.io/fiveMinuteStats/Importance_sampling.html#example:_computing_with_means_on_log_scale