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Bayesian inference

Bayesian inference

a method of drawing conclusions about a characteristic of a population using both sample data and previously known information about that characteristic. It relies on Bayes theorem to derive posterior distributions from obtained observations and prior distributions. Compare frequentist inference. [Thomas Bayes]

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