| The Reverend Thomas Bayes | … |
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| The only known portrait that is probably of Bayes from a 1936 book,1 but it is doubtful whether the portrait is actually of him.23 | … |
| Born | c. 1701 London, England |
| Died | 7 April 1761 (aged 59) Royal Tunbridge Wells, England |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Bayesian statistics Bayes’ theorem Conditional probability Inverse probability Bayes prior Bayes factor Bayesian inference See full list |
| Scientific career | … |
| Fields | Probability |
| Signature | … |
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Footnotes
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Terence O’Donnell, History of Life Insurance in Its Formative Years (Chicago: American Conservation Co:, 1936), p. 335 (caption “Rev. T. Bayes: Improver of the Columnar Method developed by Barrett.”) ↩
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Bayes’s portrait The IMS Bulletin, Vol. 17 (1988), No. 3, pp. 276–278. ↩
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Bellhouse, D. R. (1 February 2004). “The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of His Birth”. Statistical Science. 19 (1): 3. Bibcode:2004StaSc..19…3B. doi:10.1214/088342304000000189. ISSN 0883-4237. ↩