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Bayes' postulate [2 records]

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Record 1 1997-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
DEF

A means of calculating, from the frequency with which an event has occurred in prior trials, the probability that it will occur in future trials.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
CONT

Dans un essai posthume (1763), Thomas Bayes tente de déterminer la probabilité des causes par les effets observés en déduisant, dans un cas particulier, d'une distribution a priori de la probabilité p., la probabilité conditionnelle de p si, en n épreuves répétées, l'événement dont p est la probabilité a eu lieu k fois.

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)

Spanish

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