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It’s estimated that human adults make about 35,000 decisions a day — the percentage of good decisions depends on the adult. These choices can be as banal as deciding to roll or crumple toilet paper or ...

Bayes' theorem, also called Bayes' rule or Bayesian theorem, is a mathematical formula used to determine the conditional probability of events. The theorem uses the power of statistics and probability ...

Study Design Descriptive laboratory study. Objectives Use descriptive subject data to predict specific movement strategies in subjects with chronic ankle instability. Background Subjects with chronic ...

“Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, Lego, and Rubber Ducks,” by Will Kurt (2019 No Starch Press) is an excellent introduction to subjects ...

Two Bayesian clinical trial designs that perform subgroup-specific decision making and inference based on elicited utilities of patient outcomes are reviewed. The first is a randomized comparative ...

In one day, 433 people won the Philippine lottery jackpot. What were the chances? On October 1, 2022, something strange happened in the Philippines: 433 people won the jackpot in the local lottery.