How likely you think something is to happen depends on what you already believe about the circumstances. That is the simple concept behind Bayes' rule, an approach to calculating probabilities, first ...

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When you’re feeling sick and wondering whether to go to work or school, the thermometer often has the final verdict. Most people have been taught a body temperature of 98.6 Fahrenheit is normal, while ...

The likelihood of having unwanted effects as a result of radiotherapy can be calculated by using so-called NTCP models. NTCP models calculate the risk of radiation-induced side effects based on ...

Your heart rate, also known as your pulse, is a standard measurement of how many times your heart beats per minute. It increases or decreases depending on how hard you’re exerting yourself. As such, ...

Full retirement age varies by birth year, but it is 67 for those born in 1960 or later. Waiting to claim Social Security until after full retirement age increases benefits by 8% annually up to age 70.

Abstract: Although supervised deep normal estimators have recently shown impressive results on synthetic benchmarks, their performance deteriorates significantly in real-world scenarios due to the ...

As President Trump has long promised, we are now in for a long, protracted series of tariff actions, escalations, pauses, and rescissions. Until a stock market collapse, economic recession, or a ...

Abstract: The inversion of audio magnetotelluric (AMT) data is affected by uncertainties stemming from various factors, including noise, initial model assumptions, and regularization parameters. Among ...

Body mass index (BMI) estimates how healthy your weight is based on your height. There's no "perfect weight" that fits everyone, but BMI can help most adults understand their weight-related health ...