Conjugation or conjugate may refer to:

Linguistics

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Mathematics

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Probability and statistics

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  • Conjugate prior, in Bayesian statistics, a family of probability distributions that contains a prior and the posterior distributions for a particular likelihood function (particularly for one-parameter exponential families)
  • Conjugate pairing of probability distributions, in the Fourier-analytic theory of characteristic functions and statistical mechanics

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