##  [Posterior Distribution](/posterior-distribution) 

  ##  [Posterior Distribution](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/posterior-distribution-0) 

  

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Definition

A probability distribution over unknown parameters or latent quantities obtained by updating a prior distribution with observed data via the likelihood; it assigns to each parameter value its plausibility conditional on the observed dataset.