Searchers are feeling overwhelmed by the task of locating the wreckage of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. "We're not searching for a needle in a haystack — we're still trying to define where ...

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How can Bayes' theorem assign a probability to the existence of God? Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, offers this explanation: In the 18th century ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’m not sure when I first heard of Bayes’ ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.43.3.251 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.43.3.251 Abstract To compute the probability of having a disease ...