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Bayesian Inference
Bayes' theorem (published 1763) shows how to update a belief when new evidence arrives.
Open in the interactive tree →Thomas Bayes' essay was published after his death by Richard Price, and Laplace independently developed and applied the idea from 1774. Bayesian methods now drive spam filters, medical testing, robotics and machine learning, and they remain a rival school to frequentist statistics.
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- Statistics & Least Squares1809Laplace and Gauss grounded error theory and least squares in Bayesian inverse probability
- Behavioral Economics1979Kahneman and Tversky measured how far human judgement departs from Bayes' rule