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BAYES' THEOREM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Bayes' theorem" is a kind of...):
theorem (an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth)
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
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