- Institution/s: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 67
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana María ALCONCHEL SEBASTIÁN, Beatriz BURGOS CUADRILLERO, Inés PLAZA FONTANET, Patricia ROJO DE DOMINGO
- Creation / modification date: 30-01-2014
- Term: Bayes’theorem
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: Method for considering all possibilities or events and then modifying the probabilities for each of these by incorporating information that sheds light on which is the most likely.
- Context: When counseling for an autosomal dominant disorder showing variable age of onset, genetic risks can be modified using Bayes’theorem by utilizing information from an age-of-onset table.
- Notes: Bayes’ theorem […] is one of the most imposing statistical formulas in medicine.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: Théorème de Bayes. Techno-Science. Repéré à : http://www.techno-science.net/?Xonglet=glossaire&definition=6024
- Definition: DELSART, V. & VANEECLOO, N. (2010). Théorie des probabilités. Dans Méthodes statistiques de l’économie et de la gestion : Tome 1, Probabilités variables aléatoires, lois classiques (volume 1, p. 45). Lille : Septentrion Presses Universitaires.
- Context: ARMENGAUD, D. (2003). Santé et environnement. Dans Pédiatrie (3e édition, p. 311). Paris : Med-Line.
- Images:
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