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implies that “a certain poetic inertia militates against supposing change, and much more is needed to indicate or certify such change than exists.” This hypothesis is reinforced by the rest of the stanza, a single sentence formed by a pair of past conditional clauses. "What he had meant," as direct object, parallels "What else

conclusions that miracles cannot ever occur. My thesis is that Price’s Bayesian argument, arguably the first use of Bayes’ Theorem to challenge another published argument fails. It fails on three fronts: it mischaracterizes Hume’s argument as non-conditional; it improperly employs a Bayesian model test case of newspaper reporting; and it does not consider the effects of the preliminary seeding of probabilities for its Bayesian model of miracles. 1.0 Hume’s Argument Against Miracles Hume’s argument

rest of the stanza, a single sentence formed by a pair of past conditional clauses. "What he had meant," as direct object, parallels "What else there was," as subject, forming a nice balance of speculation within the triple-layered clause. This is continued within the second clause by "what was hanging from a beam," forming a seesaw of supposition that is given another push by the predicate "Would not have heeded," another past conditional verb. Beebe suggests that this back and forth structure intensifies

JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Optimized Dynamic Latent Topic Model for Big Text Data Analytics NAME: Geoffrey Mariga Wambugu REGISTRATION NUMBER: CS481-4692/2014 LECTURER: Prof. Waweru Mwangi A thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the Unit SCI 4201 Advanced Research Methodology of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Technology

Final Paper Tamara D. McQueen MAT 540: Statistical Concepts for Research Dr. Veliota Drakopoulou November 20, 2016 Final Paper This paper will give an overview of various approaches that statistics are used in everyday life when finances are concerned. The following three methods will be discussed: Sample Units, Probability, and Bayes Theorem. Hopefully, we have a broader knowledge of the three methods and understand how statistics can help in our everyday life. Let us beginning by discussing

the randomly selected user is not a social worker who doesn’t send email to friends everyday? (0.41) (joint probability) What is the probability that a user doesn’t send email to friends every day, given that he is not a social worker? (0.93) (conditional probability) Events O and N are not independent. Question 8: 看美景还是看沙漠对于学习和旅游的影响（我上课讲过的例子） Question 9:

Table of Contents Page Number 1. Introduction ……………………………………………… 2. Aim ………………………….. 3. Rationale……………………. 4. Mathematical Presentation………………. 5. Conclusion and Reflection ……………………. 6. Bibliography ……………………………………………….   1. Introduction My title of the exploration is “Analyzing of the Gambler’s Fallacy”. An analytical approach to the Gambler’s Fallacy, so that I can know how accurate is the probability of the Gambler’s Fallacy. According to the Investopedia, “When an individual erroneously

The Monty Hall problem is based off of a paradox that is very commonly misunderstood. The Monty Hall problem originated from the popular game show called Let’s Make a Deal. The host, Monty Hall shows the contestant three doors and explains that behind two of the doors await goats, and behind the third door awaits a new car. If you choose the door with the car behind it, you get to keep it. What’s the catch? Well, the same applies to the other two doors; if you choose a door with a goat behind it

Since all numbers are in constant dollars, the total sales equal to the sum of sales in each year. If MegaPharma decides not to buy rights or license from MicroPharma, there is 50% chance of successful Phase 2 and 80% chance of successful Phase 3 (conditional on success of Phase 2), and 100% of success in FDA Review. Thus, MegaPharma has 40% chances that the the compound will be approved. If it passes Phase 2, Phase 3, and Review, MegaPharma will spend $52 million. Total MegaPharma’s anticipated sales

If we take a look at an example about prostate cancer, with the data collected by Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman in The Elements of Statistical Learning [2] and view the scatterplot in figure 1.1, we can see that the dependent variable, the log of the prostate specific antigen (lpsa) has a strong positive correlation particularly with lcavol (the log cancer volume) and lcp (the log of capsular penetration) with weaker but still strong correlations with the other dependent variables, log prostate weight