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标题：Bayes’ Rule for Clinicians: An Introduction
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作者：Westbury, Chris F
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00192
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：Bayes’ Rule is a way of calculating conditional probabilities. It is difficult to find an explanation of its relevance that is both mathematically comprehensive and easily accessible to all readers. This article tries to fill that void, by laying out the nature of Bayes’ Rule and its implications for clinicians in a way that assumes little or no background in probability theory. It builds on Meehl & Rosen’s (1955) classic paper, by laying out algebraic proofs that they simply allude to, and by providing extremely simple and intuitively accessible examples of the concepts that they assumed their reader understood, and provides examples of how the rule applies in a variety of clinical settings.
关键词：bayes rule; conditional probablity; diagnosis; formal methods in diagnosis; probability theory