This poem, by North Carolina State University Emeritus Professor of Physics Jasper D. Memory (1935 - ) is designed to teach the difference between the probability of having a disease given a positive...
This page uses Bayes' Theorem to calculate the probability of a hypothesis given a datum. An example about cancer is given to help users understand Bayes' Theorem and the calculator. Key Word:...
A cartoon to teach ideas of conditional probability. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on...
"Most accidents in well-designed systems involve two or more events of low probability occurring in the worst possible combination." is a quote by American systems engineering expert Robert E. Machol...
This site provides an outline of an activity for introducing Bayes' Theorem and conditional probability.
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