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Using Empirical Bayes to approximate posteriors for large "black box" estimators

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

In the examples above, we might use our estimates to choose ads, decide whether to show a user images, or figure out which videos to recommend. These decisions are often business-critical, so it is essential for data scientists to understand and improve the regressions that inform them. The size and importance of these systems makes this hard.

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