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The teaching and learning of probability have emerged as a pivotal subject in educational research, reflecting its broad application in risk assessment, decision‐making and scientific inquiry.
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 ...
With both location and shape of stimuli varied simultaneously on independent binary probability schedules, the prediction distributions of subjects who had a 70%-30% schedule on each dimension ...
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 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 ...
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 ...