List of weight-of-evidence articles

Short description: Wikipedia list article

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

• Bayes factor, a statistical method that uses Bayes factors as an alternative to classical hypothesis testing
• Ban (unit), a logarithmic unit of information
• Quasi-empirical method, scientific methods that "are almost" or "socially approximate" an ideal of truly empirical methods
• Kullback–Leibler divergence, in probability theory and information theory, a non-symmetric measure of the difference between two probability distributions
• History of information theory, a published paper that established the discipline of information theory

Psychology

• Group polarization, the tendency of people to make decisions that are more extreme when they are in a group
• Influence diagrams approach (IDA), a technique used in the field of Human reliability Assessment (HRA)

Law and courts

• Jury, a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict
• Jury nullification, when a jury in a criminal case acquits a defendant despite the weight of evidence against the defendant
• Embracery, the attempt to influence a juror corruptly
• Organised crime prevention order, orders for courts in the UK

Business

• Credit scorecards, mathematical models which attempt to provide a quantitive measurement of the likelihood that a customer will display a defined behavior

Other uses

• Extrapolation domain analysis, identifying geographical areas that seem suitable for adoption of innovative ecosystem management
• Banburismus, a cryptanalytic process used during World War II