| Date: | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:30:46 +0000 |
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| Reply-To: | "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| From: | "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV> |
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| Subject: | OT: Thursday Theory |
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review title: The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind
reviewed By : JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
Published : August 5, 2011
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne introduces Bayes’s theorem in her new book
with a remark by John Maynard Keynes:
“When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?”
THE THEORY THAT WOULD NOT DIE
By Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Bayes’s theorem, named after the 18th-century Presbyterian minister
Thomas Bayes, addresses this selfsame essential task:
How should we modify our beliefs
in the light of additional information?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/the-theory-that-would-not-die-by-sharon-bertsch-mcgrayne-book-review.html
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