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  2. Clinical prediction rule - Wikipedia

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    In a prediction rule study, investigators identify a consecutive group of patients who are suspected of having a specific disease or outcome. The investigators then obtain a standard set of clinical observations on each patient and a test or clinical follow-up to define the true state of the patient.

  3. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias [a] or congeniality bias [2]) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. [3]

  4. Law of the unconscious statistician - Wikipedia

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    This proposition is (sometimes) known as the law of the unconscious statistician because of a purported tendency to think of the aforementioned law as the very definition of the expected value of a function g(X) and a random variable X, rather than (more formally) as a consequence of the true definition of expected value. [1]

  5. Law of total probability - Wikipedia

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    The term law of total probability is sometimes taken to mean the law of alternatives, which is a special case of the law of total probability applying to discrete random variables. [ citation needed ] One author uses the terminology of the "Rule of Average Conditional Probabilities", [ 4 ] while another refers to it as the "continuous law of ...

  6. Randomised decision rule - Wikipedia

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    In statistical decision theory, a randomised decision rule or mixed decision rule is a decision rule that associates probabilities with deterministic decision rules. In finite decision problems, randomised decision rules define a risk set which is the convex hull of the risk points of the nonrandomised decision rules.

  7. Recession forecasts have been wrong for years. Here's why a ...

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    It's a rather simple math equation: If the three-month average of the national unemployment rate has risen 0.5% or more from the previous 12-month low, the rule triggers.

  8. Bayesian probability - Wikipedia

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    Bayesian probability (/ ˈ b eɪ z i ə n / BAY-zee-ən or / ˈ b eɪ ʒ ən / BAY-zhən) [1] is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation [2] representing a state of knowledge [3] or as quantification of a personal belief.

  9. Fact check: RFK Jr. denied saying things he did say - AOL

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    Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over ...