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From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
A conditional probability distribution of a random variable, to be contrasted with its unconditional or a priori distribution.
Let
<html>
be a random parameter with an a priori density
,
let
be a random result of observations and let
be the conditional density of
when
;
then the a posteriori distribution of
for a given
</html>,
according to the
Bayes formula,
has the density
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Sidebar. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Sidebar&oldid=2992
Sidebar. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Sidebar&oldid=2992