Probability has a popular meaning that is not the same as the mathematical meaning. As a small-business owner, you may act on hunches, guesses and instincts. After such actions, you might even say you ...

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We’ll discuss some basic concepts and vocabulary in Bayesian statistics such as the likelihood, prior and posterior distributions, and how they relate to Bayes’ Rule. R statistical software will be ...

In A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, published in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace introduced a notorious hypothetical creature: a “vast intelligence” that knew the complete physical state of the ...