The term " Bayesian " refers to the 18th century mathematician and theologian Thomas Bayes, who provided the first mathematical treatment of a non-trivial problem of Bayesian inference.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

* Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes attempted to provide a logic that could handle varying degrees of confidence ; as such, Bayesian probability is an attempt to recast the representation of probabilistic statements as an expression of the degree of confidence by which the beliefs they express are held.

* April 17 – Thomas Bayes, English mathematician ( b. c. 1702 )

* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions ( 1671 ), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published ( posthumously ) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations ( anonymously ).

Bayesian refers to methods in probability and statistics named after Thomas Bayes ( ca.

Bayes ' theorem is named for Thomas Bayes (; 1701 – 1761 ), who first suggested using the theorem to update beliefs.

Bayes ' theorem was named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 61 ), who studied how to compute a distribution for the probability parameter of a binomial distribution ( in modern terminology ).

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem.

Thomas Bayes (; c. 1701 7 April 1761 ) was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes ' theorem.

Thomas Bayes was the son of London Presbyterian minister Joshua Bayes and perhaps born in Hertfordshire.

* List of things named after Thomas Bayes

The birth date is unknown likely due to the fact he was baptized in a Dissenting church, which either did not keep or was unable to preserve its baptismal records ; accord Royal Society Library and Archive catalog, Thomas Bayes ( 1701 – 1761 )</ li >

* Thomas Bayes, " An essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances.

* Thomas Bayes, 1763, " A letter to John Canton ," Phil.

* D. R. Bellhouse, " On Some Recently Discovered Manuscripts of Thomas Bayes.

* D. R. Bellhouse, 2004, " The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of His Birth ," Statistical Science 19 ( 1 ): 3 – 43.

) " Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes ".

In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: " So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same.

Another reference is provided by Thomas Gale, Dean of York ( c. 1635 – 1702 ), but this comes nearly four hundred years after the events it describes:

* Thomas Cresap ( c. 1702 – c.

* Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), mathematician, clergyman, and friend of Richard Price

The King's own sergeant-surgeon Thomas Vicary was appointed first superintendent of the hospital The King Henry VIII Gate, constructed in 1702, still forms the principal entrance to the hospital.

* Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke ( 18 May 1699 – 29 January 1702 )

* Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke ( 13 July 1702 – 25 November 1708 )

Trained in law at an early age by Andrew Hamilton, Benjamin Chew inherited his mentor's clients, the descendants of William Penn, including Thomas Penn ( 1702 – 1775 ) and his brother Richard Penn, Sr. ( 1706 – 1771 ), and their sons Governor John Penn ( 1729 – 1795 ), Richard Penn, Jr. ( 1734 – 1811 ), and John Penn ( 1760 – 1834 ).

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

* Thomas Coventry, 3rd Earl of Coventry ( 1702 – 1712 )

* Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald ( 1702 – 1737 )

Permanent white settlement of the northern Alleghenies was facilitated by the explorations and stories of such noted Marylanders as the Indian fighter and trader Thomas Cresap ( 1702 – 90 ) and the backwoodsman and hunter Meshach Browning ( 1781 – 1859 ).

Soon in August 1699 he had been appointed as the Governor of Fort St. George, in the year 1702 when the fort itself was besieged by Daud Khan of the Carnatic the Mughal Empire's local Subedar ( lieutenant ), Thomas Pitt was instructed to vie for peace.

Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, baron de Tollendal ( January 1702 – 6 May 1766 ) was a French General of Irish Jacobite Gallowglass ancestry.

The most significant work in English was Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum, published in 1702.

Charlotte Calvert ( born 1702, died December 1744 ), married Thomas Brerewood, by whom she had a son, Francis Brerewood.

* Thomas Smith ( Bishop of Carlisle ) ( 1615 – 1702 ), English Anglican bishop

Thomas Smith ( 1615 – 1702 ) was an English clergyman, who served as Dean of Carlisle, 1672 – 1684, and Bishop of Carlisle, 1684 – 1702.

* Anatomia 1522 – 1867: Anatomical Plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

* Connelly, Thomas L. Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee 1861 – 1862.

* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and director

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )

* 1972 – Thomas Woods, American historian, economist, and educator

* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1974 – Thomas Tevana, American actor

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician