Sentence examples for probabilities ratios from inspiring English sources

We will prefer part-to-whole bar graphs to convey conditional probabilities, ratios, and proportions, as these graphs are believed to invoke automatic visual area processing and proportion judgments and help viewers attend to mathematical proportions [ 5].

He is neat, controlled and a bit of a worrier; his mind is filled with probability ratios.

We proposed the use of simple equations to calculate time-dependent sensitivity and specificity based on published survival curves and other time-dependent indicators as predictive values, likelihood ratios, and posttest probability ratios to reappraise prognostic marker accuracy.

On the first reading there is no conflict whatsoever between using probability ratios and using likelihood ratios to measure evidence.

It is for this reason that many Bayesians prefer to focus on probability ratios of hypotheses (see the Ratio Formula above), rather than their absolute probability; but it is clear that the introduction of a new theory could also alter the probability ratio of two hypotheses — for example, if it implied one of them as a special case.

Furthermore, we will soon see that the absolute values of the posterior probabilities of hypotheses entirely derive from the posterior probability ratios provided by the Ratio Form of Bayes' Theorem.

This version of Bayes's Theorem shows that in order to evaluate the posterior probability ratios for pairs of hypotheses, the prior probabilities of hypotheses need not be evaluated absolutely; only their ratios are needed.

The magnitudes of these odds ratios are particularly striking and concerning given that they are based on partial regression coefficients and not on simple probability ratios.

This would be Bayes's theorem — customarily attributed to Thomas Bayes — which deals with determining the probability with which probability ratios can be inferred from observed outcomes, and which provides (a still controversial) foundation for statistical inference.

Furthermore, agents in a scientific community may disagree about how strongly the available plausibility arguments support a hypothesis over a rival hypothesis; so prior probability ratios may be somewhat diverse as well.

Even so, agents may be unable to specify precisely how much more strongly the available plausibility arguments support a hypothesis over an alternative; so prior probability ratios for hypotheses may be vague.