converting strings to most their efficient types '1' --> 1, 'A' ---> 'A', '1.2'---> 1.2

[James Stroud]

John Machin wrote:
> So, all in all, Bayesian inference doesn't seem much use in this scenario.

This is equivalent to saying that any statistical analysis doesn't seem 
much use in this scenario--but you go ahead and use statistics anyway?