bayes' postulate
NOUN
16 LETTERS · STARTS WITH B
bayes' postulate is a valid 16-letter word worth 21 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.
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WORDS WITH FRIENDS
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3 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =21 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 42TRIPLE WORD → 63
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What does bayes' postulate mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
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(statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance).
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