English
Bayes' theorem
Proper noun
  1. (probability theory) A theorem expressed as an equation that describes the conditional probability of an event or state given prior knowledge of another event.
    • 2010, Jonathan Harrington, Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hHbR9O2YqE0C&pg=PA327&dq=%22Bayes%27+theorem%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6zMjtnK7WAhVpj1QKHS9AAxsQ6AEI-gIwOw#v=onepage&q=%22Bayes'%20theorem%22&f=false page 327],
      The starting point for many techniques in probabilistic classification is Bayes' theorem, which provides a way of relating evidence to a hypothesis.
    • 2011, Allen Downey, Think Stats, O'Reilly, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TCfZ7d6skT4C&pg=PA56&dq=%22Bayes%27+theorem%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6zMjtnK7WAhVpj1QKHS9AAxsQ6AEIvAEwHA#v=onepage&q=%22Bayes'%20theorem%22&f=false page 56],
      Bayes's theorem is a relationship between the conditional probabilities of two events.
    • 2013, Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis with Bayesian Networks, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Wg7LBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22Bayes%27+theorem%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6zMjtnK7WAhVpj1QKHS9AAxsQ6AEIigIwKA#v=onepage&q=%22Bayes'%20theorem%22&f=false page 131],
      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.
Synonyms
  • (theorem or equation describing conditional probability) Bayes' law, Bayes' rule
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