An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...

Bayesian inference is attractive due to its internal coherence and for often having good frequentisi properties. However, eliciting an honest prior may be difficult, and common practice is to take an ...

This illustration gives a sense of how characters from alphabets around the world were replicated through human vs. machine learning. (Credit: Danqing Wang) Researchers say they’ve developed an ...

The paper provides a formal proof that efficient estimates of parameters, which vary as as little as possible when measurements are repeated, may be expected to provide more accurate predictions. The ...

Alice and Bob are playing a game in which the first person to get 6 points wins. The way each point is decided is a little strange. The Casino has a pool table that Alice and Bob can't see. Before the ...