Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
Add note on convergence
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
DaveCTurner committed Nov 11, 2024
1 parent 25ad995 commit 5584400
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 0 deletions.
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions _posts/2024-11-11-bayesian-bisection.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -125,3 +125,8 @@ f(p) = P(observed results \| p)<br>
where successes<sub>≥k</sub> and failures<sub>≥k</sub> are respectively the
number of successes and failures observed at commit C<sub>k</sub> or a later
commit.

Note that if you re-estimate _p_ every iteration then the median doesn't quite
behave as described above and it's not clear that the process eventually
converges. It might make more sense to estimate _p_ only from the test results
on commits that have been observed to fail.

0 comments on commit 5584400

Please sign in to comment.