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Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.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

✍ Scribed by Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich; Kidwell, Mark E.


Book ID
124255287
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
102 KB
Volume
103
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-1753

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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