Bayes Theorem in Python

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ron Stephens" <rdsteph at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > Does anyone know if someone has already coded Bayes theorem into Python?
>
> You mean as in:
>
> def Bayes(P_H, P_E, P_E_given_H):
>     P_H_given_E = (P_H * P_E_given_H) / P_E
>     return P_H_given_E
>
> ...?  I suspect somebody must have already coded one
> multiplication and one division into one Python expression,
> yes, although it's hard to be sure about the variable
> names they may have chosen.  Or do you mean something
> completely different...?
>

Duncan Smith and I did some stuff on Bayesian networks in Python.
Actually -- he did some stuff. I didn't contribute much ;)

I don't think I have hist last version, but a search on deja
may turn up something, perhaps?

>
> Alex

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