Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bayes' postulate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English

Syllables: bayes' -pos-tu-late
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

(statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance)

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What does bayes' postulate mean?: (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance)

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