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Bayes' theorem en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after English mathematician Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), who developed an early formulation. The modern expression of the theorem is due to Pierre-Simon Laplace, who extended Bayes's work but was apparently unaware of it.

Meanings

  1. A theorem expressed as an equation that describes the conditional probability of an event or state given prior knowledge of another event.
    • Bayes's theorem is a relationship between the conditional probabilities of two events. 2011, Allen Downey, Think Stats, O'Reilly, page 56:
    • The starting point for many techniques in probabilistic classification is Bayes' theorem, which provides a way of relating evidence to a hypothesis. 2010, Jonathan Harrington, Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, page 327:
    • We have now seen how Bayes' theorem enables us to correctly update a prior probability for some unknown event when we see evidence about the event. 2013, Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 131:

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Relateds

posterior probability · Bayesian · posteriors · Laplacean · prior probability · conditional probability · priors

Synonyms

Bayes' law · Bayes' rule

wikipedia: Pierre-Simon Laplace · wikipedia: Thomas Bayes