BAYES' THEOREM


Meaning of BAYES' THEOREM in English

noun Etymology: Thomas Bayes died 1761 English mathematician Date: 1865 a theorem about conditional probabilities: the probability that an event A occurs given that another event B has already occurred is equal to the probability that the event B occurs given that A has already occurred multiplied by the probability of occurrence of event A and divided by the probability of occurrence of event B

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