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philosophy and the social sciences
cognitive sciences, neurosciences, and social explanation
social cognition
inferences
Preferred term
Bayesian inference
Definition
- an approach to inference based on Bayes's theorem which was initially proposed by Thomas Bayes. There are two main interpretations of the probability or likelihood of an event occurring such as a coin turning up heads. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics; Bayesian inference]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Bayesian_inference
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