Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes (/bz/ BAYZ audio; c.1701  7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem. Bayes never published what would become his most famous accomplishment; his notes were edited and published posthumously by Richard Price.


Thomas Bayes
Only known Portrait that is possibly of Bayes from a 1936 book, but it is doubtful whether the portrait is actually of him.
Bornc. 1701
London, England
Died7 April 1761(1761-04-07) (aged 59)
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forBayesian statistics
Bayes' theorem
Conditional probability
Inverse probability
Bayes prior
Bayes factor
Bayesian inference
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Scientific career
FieldsProbability
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