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aliases:
  en:
  - Bayesian updating
concept_id: bayesian_inference
preferred:
  en: Bayesian inference
  ja: ベイズ推定
status: active
---

# Bayesian inference

A form of probabilistic inference that represents uncertainty with probability distributions and updates beliefs about hypotheses or parameters by combining prior probabilities with observed evidence through a likelihood to obtain a posterior distribution, typically via Bayes's theorem.



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