Bayes theorem We first go from the elementary formula, P (A|B) = to the advanced rule of Bayes, P (A)P (B|A) P (A)P (B|A)+P (A ′)P (B|A ′) f(y|x) = ∫

Thanks to Michael Collins for many of today’s slides.

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