The stock market is an ever-changing place. In fact, it’s changing every second of every day as prices go up and down, and new factors impact the trajectory of the market. It’s important for investors ...

Over the years, many writers have implied that statistics can provide almost any result that is convenient at the time. Of course, honest practitioners use statistics in an attempt to quantify the ...

EVENT 1: A crazy driver hits your car and whizzes past. You get out and see your car is badly dented. The driver has disappeared. You're fuming, but there's nothing you can do. You tell yourself, at ...

A while back one of my students, “Frank,” a real smarty-pants, started babbling about something called Bayes’ theorem. He wrote a long, dense paper about the theorem’s revelatory power, which had ...

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Quantum versions of Bayes’ rule have been around for decades, but the approach through the minimum change principle had not ...

Users can use the applet to apply Bayes' theorem to find the probability that a person is actually infected given that the person has tested positive for a disease. The link provides a detailed ...