Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes ( , ; 7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
Bayes never published what would become his m ...
( ; c. 1701 – 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher, and
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
minister.
Bayesian ( or ) may be either any of a range of concepts and approaches that relate to statistical methods based on
Bayes' theorem
Bayes' theorem (alternatively Bayes' law or Bayes' rule, after Thomas Bayes) gives a mathematical rule for inverting Conditional probability, conditional probabilities, allowing one to find the probability of a cause given its effect. For exampl ...
, or a follower of these methods.
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* {{cite journal
, last = Fienberg , first = Stephen
, date = 2006
, title = When did Bayesian inference become "Bayesian"?
, journal = Bayesian Analysis
, pages = 1–41
, citeseerx = 10.1.1.124.8632
Bayes, Thomas