Week 3

Question 1

What is the prior in Bayes’ theorem?

Answer 1

p(w), not conditioned on the data.

Question 2

What is the posterior in Bayes’ theorem?

Answer 2

p(w|t), conditioned on the data.

Question 3

What is the likelihood in Bayes’ theorem?

Answer 3

p(t|w)

Question 4

What does the weird alpha sign mean in an equation?

Answer 4

‘proportional to’