Title: Bayesian
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - Bayesian
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.14462
Status: current

Definition
Attributed to Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), English mathematician. The term is used to designate concepts relating to inverse probability, especially Bayes’ theorem, a theorem expressing the probability of one of a number of mutually exclusive events \(H_{\rm{i}}\), given some other event \(E\), in terms of the probabilities of all the \(H_{\rm{i}}\) independently of \(E\) and the probabilities of \(E\) given each \(H_{\rm{i}}\).

Source
- PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 843 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09)

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Citation: Citation: 'Bayesian' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14462
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