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Bayes’s theorem

A formula in probability theory attributed to Reverend Thomas Bayes. The formula is used by Bayesians to describe how to update the probability of a hypothesis H given new evidence E:

P(H|E) = [{P(E|H) ∙ P(H)}/P(E)], where P(E) ≠ 0.

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