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Stephen Beck Marcotte's avatar

Great article. I love how math simplifies things, by making reasonable assumptions.

In the applied sciences world, the multiple lines of evidence approach is preferred.

This is because nature is complicated and false positive or false negative results often “switch signs” with time.

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Hemant Shrestha's avatar

Fig: Probability and set operations

ist "A union B: probability that A and B happen" statement wrong?

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Eddy Varela's avatar

So... what's the answer for the Balls and urns problem?

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Tivadar Danka's avatar

Sorry, left that off by accident :) The Bayes theorem gives that P(urn 1 | red) = 8/13, which is approximately 61.5%.

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