Chapter 7
Bayesian reasoning
Objectives
After this chapter you should be able to
Give examples for situations with incomplete or uncertain information.
Describe the philosophy of Bayes theory and name some of its advantages and problems.
Use Bayes rules to determine prior probabilities from posterior probabilities, and find the odds of events.
Compute and interpret multi--dimensional conditional probabilities.
Key words:
Conditional probability, Bayes' rule, prior probability, posterior probability, odds, likelihood ratio
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