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Bayes'′ the′orem
(bāz, bā′ziz),USA pronunciation [Statistics.]
- 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