Bayes’ Theorem in Plain English

Simplest explanation of Bayes’ Theorem

Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.
3 min readNov 4, 2021

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Assume we have a hypothetical machine learning model that has been used to obtain predicted class values (class 0 and class 1) as shown in Table 1 below.

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Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.

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