Nov. 3 -- Probability and risk increasingly permeate our lives. Like it or not, we must be able to assess the threats and opportunities that face us. Here's a random sampling of half a dozen ...

Human behavior in many situations involving uncertainty and risk depends on the acquisition of information concerning event probabilities. A family of statistical models, growing out of general ...

In a recent study posted to Research Square*, researchers developed and tested a machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) to predict antibiotic resistance. Study: Predicting ...

New probability puzzle from columnist John Allen Paulos. Oct. 3, 2010 — -- During my summer hiatus from Who's Counting, a fascinating new paradox, first noticed by puzzle-meister Gary Foshee, ...

Most people know children learn many skills simply by watching people around them. Without explicit instructions youngsters know to do things like press a button to operate the television and twist a ...

In an experiment on the effects of blank trials on probability learning, some informational parameters were varied. The results showed that the presence of blank trials shifted response probabilities ...

The Poisson distribution is widely used in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In Bayesian inference, probability distributions often help solve problems that would otherwise be ...

This math problem requires a Goldilocks solution where relatable problems aren’t so simple that there’s no learning but not so complex and irrelevant that there’s no learning. Ted signals a need to ...