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Title

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

Robert J. Korsan
Journal / Anthology

The Mathematica Journal
Year: 1993
Volume: 3
Issue: 4
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/