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[[Bayes formula|Bayes formula]],
 
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<html><table class="eq" style="width:100%;">
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<tr><td valign="top" style="width:94%;text-align:center;"><img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="images/a010/a010030/a0100309.png"></td>
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Revision as of 16:32, 16 June 2010

A conditional probability distribution of a random variable, to be contrasted with its unconditional or a priori distribution.

Let <html> be a random parameter with an a priori density , let be a random result of observations and let be the conditional density of when ; then the a posteriori distribution of for a given </html>, according to the Bayes formula, has the density

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Sidebar. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Sidebar&oldid=2996