How to Predict the Odds of Anything

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Filed under Medicine, Science at February 27th, 2014 - 7:00 pm

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Published on Feb 17, 2014 by SciShow

Statistics! They’re every scientist’s friend. But they can be easy to misinterpret. Check out this thought exercise with Hank to understand how some mental kung fu known as Bayesian reasoning can use stats to draw some downright surprising conclusions.
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Sources:
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/science.pdf.html
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/04/07/schools-of-thought-in-probabil/
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521284147/singinst
http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2008/01/are-you-bayesian-or-frequentist-or.html
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/bayesbiog.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/The-Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions/dp/159420411X

Tags: cancer, mathematics, statistics

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