{"id":7357,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/bayesian_learning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:00","slug":"bayesian_learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/bayesian_learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayesian learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Process of learning by means ofprobabilistic Bayesian inferences. &nbsp;In Bayesian learning, current knowledge isrepresented as a set of hypotheses with a probability distribution (priorprobabilities, or shortly priors). &nbsp;Learning consists in observing evidence andre-estimating probability distribution of the hypotheses given the observedevidence (thus creating posterior probabilities). &nbsp;The inference that generatesposterior probability of each hypothesis follows Bayes\u2019 rule.<\/p>\n<p>See Bayes rule, <a href=\"learning\">Learning<\/a>, <a href=\"posterior_distribution\">Posterior distribution<\/a>, <a href=\"prior_distribution\">Prior distribution<\/a>, <a href=\"statistical_learning\">Statistical learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Process of learning by means ofprobabilistic Bayesian inferences. &nbsp;In Bayesian learning, current knowledge isrepresented as a set of hypotheses with a probability distribution (priorprobabilities, or shortly priors). &nbsp;Learning consists in observing evidence andre-estimating probability distribution of the hypotheses given the observedevidence (thus creating posterior probabilities). &nbsp;The inference that generatesposterior probability of each hypothesis follows Bayes\u2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/bayesian_learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bayesian learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}