BAYES' THEOREM


Meaning of BAYES' THEOREM in English

/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 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .