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Bayes' theorem says how much to believe something after new evidence: your prior belief, reweighed by how well the evidence fits it.
1,000 people, one positive testexperience
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Prior, likelihood, posteriorprose
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Bayes' theorem is a simple formula for conditional probabilities . It inverts them: from how often a cause produces an effect, it finds how likely the cause is once you see the effect . In words, posterior = likelihood…
Why most positives are false alarmsprose
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When a disease is rare, the healthy far outnumber the sick, so even a good test can produce more false positives than true ones . The Stanford Encyclopedia's example: a test that catches 95% of heroin users and clears…
The same test as a treefigure
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Bayes, Price and Laplaceprose
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Thomas Bayes never published it. His friend Richard Price edited the manuscript for two years and had it read at the Royal Society on 23 December 1763 ; the essay appeared that year, two years after its author's death .…
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