posterior probability

English

Noun

posterior probability (plural posterior probabilities)

(statistics) The probability of an event given the knowledge of occurrence of other events that bear on it; P( A | B ) as contrasted to P( A ), where A is the sought event and B is the sign or symptom event.

See also

prior probability

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