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(called evidence below). Often there are competing hypotheses, and the task is to determine which is the most probable.
* , the prior probability, is the estimate of the probability of the hypothesis before the data , the current evidence, is observed.
* , the evidence, corresponds to new data that were not used in computing the prior probability.
* , the posterior probability, is the probability of given , i.e., after is observed. This

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