THE approach to probability adopted in this book is conventional, but cautious. The two definitions, the one a priori, based on equally likely aspects of a system, the second a posteriori, based on ...

DR. JEFFREYS implies in his letter in NATURE of September 17 (p. 535) that a prior probability cannot have a frequency interpretation. That there are several usages of the word probability is well ...

Background: Breast cancer risk education enables women make informed decisions regarding their options for screening and risk reduction. We aimed to determine whether patient education regarding ...

In 1929, a few years prior to his colleague Kolmogorov's Grundbegriffe, the leading Russian probabilist Khinchin published a paper in which he commented on the foundational ambitions of von Mises' ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

Karthik Ghosh; Brianna J. Crawford; Sandhya Pruthi; Constance I. Williams; Lonzetta Neal; Nicole P. Sandhu; Ruth E. Johnson; Dietlind Wahner-Roedler; Marcia K ...