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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

One of the better uses I've seen involved using this perspective to turn what was effectively a maximum likelihood fit into a full Gaussian model to make the predicted probabilities more meaningful.

Not that it really matters much how the perspective is used, what's important is that it's there.