Doctors must balance trying to find one diagnosis that explains all of a patient’s symptoms, and acknowledging that multiple conditions can co-occur. The authors sought to better understand multiple diagnoses by reviewing case reports. Multiple diagnoses usually involved cases in…
Tag: Probability
What if the secret to your brain’s elusive computing power is its randomness?
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are creating a concept for a new kind of computer for solving complex probability problems that involve random chance.
Seeing Multiple Forecasts in Verbal Rather than Numerical Form Causes People to Make More Confident Predictions of Outcome
A forthcoming research paper by Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professor Robert Mislavsky, a marketing expert, looks at a little-examined area of probability forecasting.
An ant-inspired approach to mathematical sampling
In a paper published by the Royal Society, a team of Bristol researchers observed the exploratory behaviour of ants to inform the development of a more efficient mathematical sampling technique.