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priors

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Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone. Matt Taibbi

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 17–90 The quest for "the universal method for constructing priors" continues to attract statistical theorists. Source: Internet

All the Cluniac houses in England and Scotland were French colonies, governed by French priors who travelled to the Abbey of Cluny to consult or be consulted (unless the abbot of Cluny chose to come to Britain, which happened rarely). Source: Internet

For example, Bayesian parameter estimation can provide rich information about the data from which researchers can draw inferences, while using uncertain priors that exert only minimal influence on the results when enough data is available. Source: Internet

Jacob R. Rich, 25, of Biddeford, on May 23 on a charge of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer with priors and violating condition of release, on Hannaford Drive. Source: Internet

Hansen and Yu (2001), page 747. In minimizing description length (or descriptive complexity), MDL estimation is similar to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori estimation (using maximum-entropy Bayesian priors ). Source: Internet

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