posteriors
Seats you sit
Posteriors is the plural of posterior, the buttocks.
The word sounds clinical or humorous depending on context: The children landed on their posteriors in the snow.
In statistics, posteriors refers to posterior probabilities—the revised likelihood of something after accounting for new evidence.
Buttock muscle
- buttocksFleshy seat area
- glutealOf the buttocks
- sacrumFused vertebrae above tailbone
- pelvisBony basin at waist
ischium · coccyx · tailbone · hipbones · hamstrings · femur · iliac · abductors
Quantified chance of occurrence
- BayesianPrior-to-posterior probability approach
- priorExisting before another
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- distributionAllocation across recipients
inference · estimate · belief · updating · conditional · hypothesis · parameter · prediction
buttocks
Fleshy seat area
rear · rump · bum · butt · derriere · booty · buns · cheeks · hindquarters · haunches
gluteus
Buttock muscle
pelvis · ischium · coccyx · tailbone · hipbones · hamstrings · femur · iliac · abductors · adductors
probability
Quantified chance of occurrence
- BayesianPrior-to-posterior probability approach
- priorExisting before another
- likelihoodChance something will occur
distribution · inference · estimate · belief · updating · conditional · hypothesis · parameter · prediction · model
posteriorsfronts
Deceptive outward appearances
chests · abdomens · front ends · stomachs · faces
- posterior chamberEye cavity behind iris
- posterior fossaRear skull cavity
- posterior pituitaryHypothalamic hormone release site