adj.
Pronunciation: ' b ā -z ē - ə n, -zh ə n
Function: adjective
Date: 1956
: being, relating to, or involving statistical methods that assign probabilities or distributions to events (as rain tomorrow) or parameters (as a population mean) based on experience or best guesses before experimentation and data collection and that apply Bayes' theorem to revise the probabilities and distributions after obtaining experimental data