Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA
AbstractA naïve Bayes approach to theory confirmation is used to compute the posterior probabilities for a series of four models of DNA considered by James Watson and Francis Crick in the early 1950s using multiple forms of evidence considered relevant at the time. Conditional probab...
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The MIT Press
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Quantitative Science Studies |
| Online Access: | https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/4/1/209/114460/Bayesian-history-of-science-The-case-of-Watson-and |