Probabilistic Models and Uncertainty

Update a failure probability

BOTIE

Update alpha and beta independently, then divide updated alpha by their updated total.
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Update alpha and beta independently, then divide updated alpha by their updated total.

New sensor trials should update Botie's belief about a failure rate while retaining the information represented by the prior.

Add failures to alpha and working sensors to beta, then form the updated mean from both parameters.

Examples and results
Prior alpha
1
Prior beta
1
New failures
1
New working sensors
2
Required result
0.4
Prior alpha
1
Prior beta
1
New failures
2
New working sensors
0
Required result
0.75
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Assumptions and test precision

Use positive prior parameters and non-negative integer counts. Trials assume one stable rate. Numerical tests allow a difference of 0.001. Lists and structures must also have the right shape.

Ten working sensors and no new failures

This check uses the pieces from “Let failures and working sensors update different counts”.

BOTIE

A Beta prior represents some earlier failures. Update it after ten more sensors work correctly, then return the posterior mean failure probability. Should the absence of new failures erase the prior?
Prior alpha
2
Prior beta
8
New failures
0
New working sensors
10

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Why does observing only failures still leave the posterior mean below one in the supplied case?

Prior parameters continue to contribute until the observations outweigh them.

Use positive prior parameters and non-negative integer counts. Trials assume one stable rate.

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