Thomas Bayes

Instead, the algorithms behind Aurasma "are based on probability theory," which he says "harkens back to an amazing piece of work by an English country vicar called Thomas Bayes."

CNET News.com 2011

He'd determined this with the help of Bayes's Theorem, which was first developed by Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century English mathematician and Presbyterian minister.

Unreasonable Doubt Raymond Zhong 2011

It was disappointing to find no mention of the Reverend Thomas Bayes.

Letters: Canny far from home 2011

Thomas Bayes, of the networks mentioned above, was an 18th-century British mathematician who applied probability to all sorts of problems.

Standing Against Hate Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

In game theory analysis the followers of eighteenth-century statistician Thomas Bayes hold that the world is made up of constantly changing knowledge, and in determining the probability of an event—what Zagaev was planning, in this case—you have to continually readjust your predictions as you learn new bits of information.

Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010

Hartley appears to have been one of a small circle of mathematicians who read, and understood, papers making fundamental contributions to the theory of probability by Abraham De Moivre (1667-1754) and Thomas Bayes (1702-61).

David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009

Thomas Bayes would probably use PPM to make adjustments to NMR if Thomas were running a media agency today.

Optimal Decision Making in TV Program Selection - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBloggers 2009

Thomas Bayes, who lived in the early 1700s, argued convincingly that it is better to include all variables in a decision rather than just those for which one has the best quantitative information, pointing out that even squishy estimates of a variable serve the decision maker better than the exclusion of the variable.

Optimal Decision Making in TV Program Selection - Bill Harvey - MediaBizBloggers 2009

But Thomas Bayes likely would have preferred "Shrek."

Understanding How 2007

Recently, Stephen D. Unwin employed Bayesian probabilities, a statistical method devised by 18th-century Presbyterian minister and mathematician Reverend Thomas Bayes, to compute the probability of God's existence.

Archive 2006-12-01 Cliff Pickover 2006