How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers

Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 07:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The tenets of Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century statistician and minister, underpin the latest estimates of the prevalence of extraterrestrial life -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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