Bayes' theorem combines our prior knowledge about an event with evidence from data to provide a ________ probability.
- joint
- marginal
- posterior
- prior
The theorem combines our prior knowledge (the prior probability) and evidence (the likelihood) to provide a new, updated probability of an event (the posterior probability).
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