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Re:Rationing, errors and mammogram math by ltjohnson on Sunday December 13, 2009 @08:22PM (#993379)
I'll start by saying that I'm not trolling.

Using conditional probability, or bayes theorem to calculate a conditional probabilitiy, does not make something bayesian analysis.

I haven't read the original report (it's on my list) but what is presented in this article isn't really anything except probability. It would be bayesian if they put a distribution on the proportion of people that have a "certain cancer."

Re:Rationing, errors and mammogram math by debt on Sunday December 13, 2009 @10:07PM (#993509)
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes

He uses the mammogram statistics as an example to explain Bayes' Theorem.