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Bayes•i•an
(bā′zē ən, -zhən),USA pronunciation adj. [Statistics.]
- Statisticsof or pertaining to statistical methods that regard parameters of a population as random variables having known probability distributions.
- Thomas Bayes (1702–61), English mathematician + -ian 1960–65
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