I think the Numogram is more interesting, highly relevant today due to AI happenings
cscheid•1h ago
Seriously, though, there's one nomogram you (yes you) should know about and have it well-enough engraved in your mind's eye that you can use it with eyes closed. A nomogram for Bayes' theorem: https://www.ovid.com/journals/nejm/abstract/10.1056/nejm1975...
senkora•1h ago
That is cool, although it took me awhile to understand it because the posterior probability is on the left and the prior probability is on the right, and because it uses D=Disease and T=Test when I am used to seeing D=Data.
kqr•1h ago
Neat. This is based on Bayes' rule in its odds form[1], or more specifically in log-odds form, where evidence is additive[2].
Actually I find nomograms in log form really cool for making naive bayes classifiers 'explainable'. One can even add density for continuous values.
IMHO this is so much nicer than e.g. decisions tree visualizations (which everyone quotes for the most explainable AI models).
tgv•24m ago
It is indeed a great tool for visualizing Bayesian relations. You can even "feel" the sensitivity.
alnwlsn•38m ago
If you like things like this I can recommend you check out the Chris Staecker youtube channel. He covers all sorts of tools people used to use to do math before computers and calculators, and there are a lot of them. Some of the things people came up with to do what today would be considered relatively simple math are pretty clever, pretty complex, or both.
nok22kon•1h ago