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Bayes’ rule, medical genetics and the wider world. A review of: the theory that would not die. How Bayes’ rule cracked the Enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy: by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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Book ID
121604265
Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
170 KB
Volume
132
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-6717

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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-e