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Glossary: Probability for ML

Hypothesis, evidence

Also written: hypothesis, evidence, H, E

In Bayes' rule, the hypothesis H is what you want to know (the order is fraud) and the evidence E is what you observed (the order was flagged). P(E) is how often the evidence happens at all.

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Related terms

Bayes' rulePrior, posteriorLikelihood