Associations to the word «Bayesian»

Wiktionary

BAYESIAN, adjective. Alternative letter-case form of Bayesian
BAYESIAN, adjective. (probability) (statistics) Of or pertaining to Thomas Bayes, English mathematician.
BAYESIAN NETWORK, noun. (statistics) A directed acyclic graph whose vertices represent random variables and whose directed edges represent conditional dependencies. Each random variable can fall into any of at least two mutually disjoint states, and has a probability function which takes as inputs the states of its parent nodes and returns as output the probability of being in a certain state for a given combination of the states of its parent nodes. A node without parent nodes just has an unconditioned probability of being in some given state.

Dictionary definition

BAYESIAN, adjective. Of or relating to statistical methods based on Bayes' theorem.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats