Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleStar masses and bayesian probability.AuthorsMaddox, JohnAbstractDiscusses how scientist Lee Samuel Finn uses Bayes' theorem on conditional probabilities to pin down the probability distribution of the masses of neutron stars on the basis of four observations.SubjectsBAYES' theorem; STELLAR mass; NEUTRON stars; MEASUREMENT; ASTRONOMICAL observations; SCIENCEPublicationNature, 1994, Vol 371, Issue 6499, p649ISSN0028-0836Publication typeArticleDOI10.1038/371649a0