Contract No. W·7405-Eng—48 Sample Contracts
M}Contract No. W·7405-Eng—48 • July 17th, 2009
This is the probability, that the particular experimental result of N events turns out the way it did, assuming A is true, divided by the probability that the experiments turns out the way it did, assuming B is true. The foregoing lengthy sentence is a correct statement using direct probability. Physicists have a shorter way of saying it by using inverse probability. They say Eq. ‘(1) is the betting odds of A against B. The formalism of inverse probability assigns inverse probabilities whose ratio is the likelihood ratio in the case