Books by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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review 1: Complex and brainy, but very interesting; I think it's the best you can do at explaining what Bayes' rule is to non-specialists like me. With an admirable minimum of equations, McGrayne talks about the origin of the Bayes statistical method, the controversies around it, and its w...
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review 1: I imagine that Bayes must be turning over in his grave. The good reverend was a deep philosophical thinker, and this popular exposition caricatures what and why his famous rule was created. It has been said that there are many kinds of Bayesians. The book oversimpifies the situat...
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review 1: I don't read a lot of nonfiction. I think it's because it often falls into the problem this book has. That is, there's a morsel of good story, but it's not enough to fill a book.It's interesting that Bayes' Theorem wasn't accepted at first, and why, and how it languished in obscu...