According to Norvig, Holmes is a Bayesian. Though I think it would be cool if there were a mystery story whose sleuth-protagonist made explicit use of stats and probability.
Worth Dying For by Lee Childs has Reacher (the main character, and extraordinarily competent) using Baysian reasoning—and the other characters weren’t. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep close track of the details, and wasn’t willing to reread the book to post about it.
According to Norvig, Holmes is a Bayesian. Though I think it would be cool if there were a mystery story whose sleuth-protagonist made explicit use of stats and probability.
Worth Dying For by Lee Childs has Reacher (the main character, and extraordinarily competent) using Baysian reasoning—and the other characters weren’t. Unfortunately, I didn’t keep close track of the details, and wasn’t willing to reread the book to post about it.