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Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Statistics as Topic > Probability > Bayes Theorem
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Mathematical Concepts > Probability > Bayes Theorem

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Bayes Theorem  

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  • A theorem in probability theory named for Thomas Bayes (1702-1761). In epidemiology, it is used to obtain the probability of disease in a group of people with some characteristic on the basis of the overall rate of that disease and of the likelihood of that characteristic in healthy and diseased individuals. The most familiar application is in clinical decision analysis where it is used for estimating the probability of a particular diagnosis given the appearance of some symptoms or test result.

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