Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bayes'_postulate

1 sense of bayes' postulate

Sense 1
Bayes' postulate -- ((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))
       => postulate, posit -- ((logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning)