Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes, a minister and mathematician whose name is literally attached to statistical inference. Very few details are known about Bayes, but his impact on statistics and science in general is remarkable considering that he published only two papers in his lifetime. His simply stated law of conditional probabilities has led to an incredibly powerful and popular branch of statistics.

http://blogs.sas.com/content/jmp/2013/06/03/celebrating-statisticians-thomas-bayes/

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