The statistical probability that a hypothesis is true calculated in the light of relevant observations.
Compare with prior probability
Example sentencesExamples
- To summarize: the paradox arises because you use the prior probabilities to calculate the expected gain rather than the posterior probabilities.
- They implemented a full Bayesian method for calculating posterior probabilities using Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
- If the null hypothesis is rejected, the program calculates a posterior probability for functional divergence for each position in the alignment.
- The expectations are actually obtained using the posterior probabilities rather than the prior probabilities.
- Within the Bayesian framework, the posterior probability is obtained from the likelihood function and the prior probability.