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On the efficacy of bayesian inference for nonidentifiable models. Nico orlandi, university of california, santa cruz pdf of nico orlandis paper jump to the comments there is a certain excitement in vision science concerning the idea of applying the tools of bayesian decision theory to explain our perceptual capacities. In ways that are yet to be fully understood, the visual cortex arrives at a simple and unambiguous interpretation of data from the retinal image that is useful for the decisions and actions of. More specifically, we assume that we have some initial guess about the distribution of this distribution is called the prior distribution.
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