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An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances
Phil. Trans., 53, 370-418. 1763.
Bayes's paper enunciated Bayes's Theorem for calculating "inverse probabilities”—the basis for methods of extracting patterns from data in decision analysis, data mining, statistical learning machines, Bayesian networks, Bayesian inference. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.
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