Bayesian

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Bayesian refers to methods in probability and statistics named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes (ca. 1702–1761), in particular methods related to:

• the degree-of-belief interpretation of probability, as opposed to frequency or proportion or propensity interpretations; or
• Bayes' theorem on conditional probability.

These methods include:

• Bayes estimator
• Bayes factor
• Bayesian average
• Bayesian spam filtering
• Bayesian game
• Bayesian inference
• Bayesian information criterion
• Bayesian multivariate linear regression
  • Bayesian linear regression, a special case
• Bayesian model comparison
• Bayesian network
• Bayesian probability
• Empirical Bayes method
• Naive Bayes classifier

Bayesian also refers to the application of this probability theory to the functioning of the brain

• Bayesian brain

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