Weight of evidence
Weight of evidence is a measure of evidence on one side of an issue as compared with the evidence on the other side of the issue, or to measure the evidence on multiple issues.
Weight of evidence or WofE May Be used in:
Mathematics, statistics, and information theory
- See Bayes factor, a statistical method that uses Bayes factors as an alternative to classical hypothesis testing
- See ban (information), a logarithmic unit of information
- See quasi-empirical method, scientific methods that are "almost" or "socially approximate" an ideal of truly empirical methods
- See Kullback–Leibler divergence, in probability theory and information theory, a non-symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions
- See history of information theory, a published paper that established the discipline of information theory
Psychology
- See group polarization, the tendency of people to make decisions that are more extreme when they are in a group
- See influence diagrams approach (IDA), a technique used in the field of Human reliability Assessment (HRA)
Law and courts
- See jury, a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict
- See jury nullification, when a jury in a criminal case acquits a defendant despite the weight of evidence against the defendant
- See embracery, the attempt to influence a juror corruptly
- See organised crime prevention order, orders for courts in the UK
Business
- See credit scorecards, mathematical models which attempt to provide a quantitive measurement of the likelihood that a customer will display a defined behavior
Other uses
- See extrapolation domain analysis, identifying geographical areas that seem suitable for adoption of innovative ecosystem management
- See Banburismus, a cryptanalytic process used during World War II
See also
- WOFE (disambiguation)