In stage-based demography, animals are often categorized into size (or mass) classes, and size-based probabilities of surviving and changing mass classes must be estimated before demographic analyses ...

We consider two methods of estimating phenotype probabilities for a number of standard genetic markers like the ABO, MNSs, and PGM markers. The first method is based on the maximum likelihood ...

Statisticians who study coincidences are fond of saying that ordinary people don’t know how to estimate the probabilities of coincidences. To illustrate our poor statistical thinking, statisticians ...

One important feature of the brain is its ability to make generalizations based on sparse data. By learning regularities in our environment it can manage to guide our actions. As adults, we have ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers evaluated the proficiency of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) artificial intelligence (AI) in probabilistic ...

Statisticians who study coincidences are fond of saying that ordinary people don’t know how to estimate the probabilities of coincidences. To illustrate our poor statistical thinking, statisticians ...