Machine Learning gets all the marketing hype, but are we overlooking Bayesian Networks? Here's a deeper look at why "Bayes Nets" are underrated - especially when it comes to addressing probability and ...

Everyone who spends time with children knows how incredibly much they learn. But how can babies and young children possibly learn so much so quickly? In a recent article in Science, I describe a ...

In the ever-evolving toolkit of statistical analysis techniques, Bayesian statistics has emerged as a popular and powerful methodology for making decisions from data in the applied sciences. Bayesian ...

David Vaux argues that experimental biologists should be better versed in classical statistics (Nature 492, 180–181; 2012). We suggest that they might also join the shift to Bayesian statistics that ...

The notion of free energy in inference derives from a mathematical method of inverting a probability distribution. If the brain knows the probability of its sensations (given a “generative model of ...