Bayes' theorem
THEOREM DESCRIBING THE PROBABILITY OF AN EVENT BASED ON PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF CONDITIONS THAT MIGHT BE RELATED TO THE EVENT
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¦ noun Statistics a theorem expressing the conditional probability of each of a set of possible causes for a given observed outcome in terms of the known probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause.
Derivatives
Bayesian adjective
Origin
C19: named after the English mathematician Thomas Bayes.