Word
bayesianism
Definition
n. a method of thinking and calculating where you update how much you believe something as new evidence appears.
n. a philosophical and mathematical framework that interprets probability as a subjective degree of belief updated via Bayes' rule upon encountering new data.
Examples
“Under Bayesianism, learning is seen as updating your beliefs when you see new evidence.”
“Modern robotics relies heavily on Bayesianism to estimate a robot's location amid noisy sensor readings.”
“Objective Bayesianism seeks non-informative priors to minimize subjective bias during continuous model parameter estimation.”
Examples
simple
“Under Bayesianism, learning is seen as updating your beliefs when you see new evidence.”
contextual
“Modern robotics relies heavily on Bayesianism to estimate a robot's location amid noisy sensor readings.”
complex
“Objective Bayesianism seeks non-informative priors to minimize subjective bias during continuous model parameter estimation.”
Etymology
Named after 18th-century English mathematician and Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes (1701–1761), whose seminal essay on inverse probability was published posthumously by Richard Price in 1763.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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