BAYES' THEOREM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bayes' theorem mean? 

• BAYES' THEOREM (noun)
  The noun BAYES' THEOREM has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: BAYES' THEOREM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAYES' THEOREM (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)