{"id":67934,"date":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/bayes-theorem\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:34","slug":"bayes-theorem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/bayes-theorem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayes&#8217; theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A formula used to calculate the probability of an outcome given a known prior outcome that occurred in similar circumstances. The 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes proposed a statistical theorem that describes how people&#8217;s perceptions change in the light of new information. This process, called Bayesian inference, evaluates the degree of truth in terms of probabilities.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formula used to calculate the probability of an outcome given a known prior outcome that occurred in similar circumstances. The 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes proposed a statistical theorem that describes how people&#8217;s perceptions change in the light of new information. This process, called Bayesian inference, evaluates the degree of truth in terms of probabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-physiological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}