Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...

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The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Aug., 1998), pp. 1215-1241 (27 pages) We develop a nonparametric Bayes factor for testing the fit of a parametric model. We begin with a nominal parametric ...

The X chromosome is a relatively large chromosome, harboring a lot of genetic information. Much of the statistical analysis of X-chromosomal information is complicated by the fact that males only have ...

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 ...