Numb3rs: How Many Times Does Charlie Get to Update His Priors?(It's Good to be a Bayesian)

Despite my having had mixed reactions to the show initially (see this and this), Numb3rs is now one of my favourites. One reason (in addition to the enjoyable character development) is that Charlie Epps, the math genius, is almost always wrong. He goes through all sorts of machinations — bizarre search algorithms, location theory, or whatever — and then, when the FBI doesn't find the criminal, he has to revise his models, update his priors to come up with something else. And sometimes he has to revise his model or analysis several times before the FBI catches the criminal(s), usually just in the nick of time.



Isn't Bayesian inference wonderful?