"Posteriors" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Posteriors" Meaning

Adjective

Relating to an inference or conclusion that is drawn from data or experience, or to something that comes after something else in time or order.

Example: "Epidemiologists may use posterior probabilities to estimate the likelihood of disease outbreaks occurring in a given area."

"Posteriors" Examples

Invariance of Posterior Distribution

A property of Bayesian inference is invariance of the posterior distribution.

The maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator can be obtained by computing the value of the parameters that maximize the posterior. The posterior distribution is invariant to transformations of scale and location.