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Bayes
Thomas Bayes (about 1701 to 1761), an English minister and mathematician. His theorem describes how to change an estimate of probability when new evidence arrives.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don't, Nate Silver
Explained in
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don't, Nate Silver
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Thomas Bayes (about 1701 to 1761), an English mathematician and minister. Bayes's Rule shows how to update expectations in light of new facts.
- Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Chris Frith
Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century English minister and mathematician. He worked out the rule by which new evidence changes how strongly we hold a belief.