The Reverent Thomas Bayes (pictured left) was a Presbyterian minister who lived between 1702 to 1761. He is a key figure in the history of statistics. His key paper was published posthumously by his friend Richard Price as [Bayes, 1763].

His theories of probability are somewhat different to the "normal" taught statistical theory as ...

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