The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
"Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 320 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Enlightenment and the Anti-Bayesian reaction
- pt. 2. Second World War era
- pt. 3. The glorious revival
- pt. 4. To prove its worth
- pt. 5. Victory 211.