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  2. Accuracy and precision - Wikipedia

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    Accuracy is also used as a statistical measure of how well a binary classification test correctly identifies or excludes a condition. That is, the accuracy is the proportion of correct predictions (both true positives and true negatives) among the total number of cases examined. [10]

  3. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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    The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

  4. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is not opposite day, but if you say it is a normal day it would be considered a normal day, which contradicts the fact that it has previously been stated that it is an opposite day. Richard's paradox : We appear to be able to use simple English to define a decimal expansion in a way that is self-contradictory.

  5. Inverse probability - Wikipedia

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    Inverse probability, variously interpreted, was the dominant approach to statistics until the development of frequentism in the early 20th century by Ronald Fisher, Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson. [3] Following the development of frequentism, the terms frequentist and Bayesian developed to contrast these approaches, and became common in the 1950s.

  6. Randomness - Wikipedia

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    The fields of mathematics, probability, and statistics use formal definitions of randomness, typically assuming that there is some 'objective' probability distribution. In statistics, a random variable is an assignment of a numerical value to each possible outcome of an event space. This association facilitates the identification and the ...

  7. Butterfly effect in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    According to science journalist Peter Dizikes, the films Havana and The Butterfly Effect mischaracterize the butterfly effect by asserting the effect can be calculated with certainty, because this is the opposite of its scientific meaning in chaos theory as it relates to the unpredictability of certain physical systems; Dizikes writes in 2008 ...

  8. Computational irreducibility - Wikipedia

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    Israeli, Navot, and Nigel Goldenfeld, "On computational irreducibility and the predictability of complex physical systems". Physical Review Letters, 2004. " "Computational Irreducibility". ISAAC/EINSTein research and development. Archived from the original on 2011-12-11. Berger, David, "Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science". Serendip's ...

  9. Predictability - Wikipedia

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    Predictability is the degree to which a correct prediction or forecast of a system's state can be made, either qualitatively or quantitatively. Predictability and causality [ edit ]