BAYESIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bayesian mean? 

• BAYESIAN (adjective)
  The adjective BAYESIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to statistical methods based on Bayes' theorem

  Familiarity information: BAYESIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAYESIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to statistical methods based on Bayes' theorem

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Bayes' theorem ((statistics) a theorem describing how the conditional probability of a set of possible causes for a given observed event can be computed from knowledge of the probability of each cause and the conditional probability of the outcome of each cause)

 Context examples 

EXAMPLE(S): Arterial puncture, sphygmomanometry (for blood pressure measurement) Global introspection, algorithm, Bayesian (for Adverse Event causality)Estrogen Receptor Assay, Progesterone Receptor Assay, p53 Assay (for clinical result assay)

(Defined Observation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The researchers then used a new method, combining finite element modelling and Bayesian nested sampling to estimate the storage timescales.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

EXAMPLE(S): Arterial puncture, sphygmomanometry (for blood pressure measurement)Global introspection, algorithm, bayesian (for Adverse Event causality)Estrogen Receptor Assay, Progesterone Receptor Assay, p53 Assay (for clinical result assay)

(Performed Observation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The method can also be used to represent the consensus over multiple runs of a clustering algorithm with random restart (such as K-means, model-based Bayesian clustering, SOM, etc.), so as to account for its sensitivity to the initial conditions.

(Consensus Clustering, NCI Thesaurus)