Bayes' theorem

Bayes' theorem
/bayz, bay"ziz/, Statistics.
a 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]

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