In this post, I explain how a newly introduced bias—likelihood neglect bias—can prevent us from forming accurate judgments about the world.

An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...

The School of Law at Queen Mary University of London offers programmes across a wide range of specialisms and postgraduate qualifications, including PhD, LLM, MSc and Diploma degrees. We are the ...

A relatively new and growing form of lending in Europe is enabling banks to classify certain debts as lower risk than they ...

Abstract: In statistical classification and machine learning, classification error is an important performance measure, which is minimized by the Bayes decision rule ...

Traditionalists object to the use of Bayes's theorem in general, and Bayesians disagree about the details of their models.” Some may regard this as just a little overstated. Nonetheless ...

The Naïve Bayes algorithm is a probabilistic classification technique based on Bayes' Theorem. It assumes that the features are independent of each other, making it a "naïve" assumption. Despite this ...