BAYES' POSTULATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bayes' postulate mean? 

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

1. (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)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAYES' POSTULATE (noun)

Meaning:

(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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Bayes' postulate" is a kind of...):

posit; postulate ((logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning)

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)