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Name: Base Rates
ID: m11171
Language: English (en)
Summary: Finding the true probability of an event taking into account misses, false positives, and base rates. Also, using Bayes' Theorem.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: base, bayes, false, misses, positive, posterior, prior, probability, rate
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 1.0)
Authors: David Lane (lane@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: David Lane (lane@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Matthew Jeanes (mjeanes@rice.edu), David Lane (lane@rice.edu)
Version: 2.3 (history)
Created: May 16, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5
Revised: Jul 14, 2003 2:29 pm GMT-5

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Version: 2.3 Jul 14, 2003 2:29 pm GMT-5 by Liqun Wang
Changes: 
change mid from new5 to m11171, change m:mi which has mathvariant=bold to mtext for text part.
Version: 2.2 Jun 4, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Matthew Jeanes
Changes: 
added link to prerequisite
Version: 2.1 Jun 4, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Matthew Jeanes
Changes: 
converted to cnxml 0.5; added glossary
Version: 2.0 May 16, 2003 12:00 am GMT-5 by Matthew Jeanes
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	    Base Rates
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