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

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

These estimates can be useful to make risk-adjusted decisions and explore-exploit trade-offs, or to find situations where the underlying regression method is particularly good or bad. For example, we could use a relatively coarse generalization model for $t$ and rely on calibration to memorize item-specific information.

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