Concept
Bayesian statistics
Overview
statistics theory that uses Bayes’ theorem to compute and update probabilities after obtaining new data
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Bayesian statistics
Related ideas
- Probability
- Probability theory
- Conditional probability
- Parameter
- Statistics
- Partition of a set
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Bayesian probability
- Bayes' theorem
- Bayesian inference
- Algorithm
- Proposition
- Thomas Bayes
- Probability interpretations
- Frequentist probability
Place in the tradition
Part of Coherentism.