In statistics, a frequentist interpretation looks only at the simple probability. But Bayes' theorem works with conditional information rather than just looking at a positive result, says Adam Frank.

Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation of the probability of failing from a particular cause by time t in the presence of other acting causes (i.e., the cause-specific failure probability) is ...

Probability theorem gets quantum makeoverWhat would Thomas Bayes think? In 1763, he proposed a new approach to calculate ...