Good work! You might mention that the reason why log-odds are awful for things like adding probabilities of two disjoint events is that there’s not a nice formula for log(x+y). That’s the price of turning multiplication into addition.
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Good work! You might mention that the reason why log-odds are awful for things like adding probabilities of two disjoint events is that there’s not a nice formula for log(x+y). That’s the price of turning multiplication into addition.