Bayes' theorem

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(bāz, bāziz)


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Bayes' theorem  (bāz, bāziz),USA pronunciation [Statistics.]
  1. Statisticsa theorem describing how the conditional probability of each of a set of possible causes, given an observed outcome, can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and of the conditional probability of the outcome, given each cause.
  • see Bayesian


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