Decisions, Uncertainty, and All That: Flipping Thumbtacks: 1000 Points of Data -- from Wolfram Library Archive

Title

Decisions, Uncertainty, and All That: Flipping Thumbtacks: 1000 Points of Data

Author

Robert J. Korsan

Journal / Anthology

The Mathematica Journal

Year:

1993

Volume:

Issue:

Page range:

35-40

Description

Using experience to improve our knowledge of uncertain events is something we all do every day. The techniques of Bayesian inference provide a mathematical description of this learning process. In this column, we continue our discussion of Bayesian influence by extending the techniques to handle continuous variables.

Subject

Mathematics > Probability and Statistics

URL

http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v3i4/

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