How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this note we show the consistency of majority decisions under preference conditions that are more general than Single-Peaked Preferences ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves. The songs of the cosmos, now that we can finally hear them, might ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

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The influence of Ronald Coase's 1960 paper, "The Problem of Social Cost," cannot be overstated. Originally published in the Law School's own Journal of Law and Economics, of which Coase was editor ...

Abstract: The theorem gives the most general form of the driving-point impedance of any network composed of a finite number of self-inductances, mutual inductances, and capacities. This impedance is a ...

Annals of Mathematics, a distinguished journal of research papers in pure mathematics, was founded in 1884. Annals of Mathematics is published bimonthly with the cooperation of Princeton University ...