Meaning of Bayes' theorem | Babel Free

Definitions

A theorem expressed as an equation that describes the conditional probability of an event or state given prior knowledge of another event.

Examples

“The starting point for many techniques in probabilistic classification is Bayes' theorem, which provides a way of relating evidence to a hypothesis.”

“Bayes's theorem is a relationship between the conditional probabilities of two events.”

“We have now seen how Bayes' theorem enables us to correctly update a prior probability for some unknown event when we see evidence about the event.”

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