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Locally uniform priors are commonly used as noninformative priors. ) in which the prior f (θ ) is locally uniform to best reflect true noninformativeness. Box and Tiao [3, p. 25] discuss this in depth. Jeffrey’s rule [7] is a rule guiding the choice of noninformative prior distributions. See JEFFREYS’ PRIOR DISTRIBUTION. Conjugate Prior: A prior distribution f (θ ) which combines fY| (y|θ) to produce a posterior distribution f |Y (θ |y) which is in the same family as the prior distribution; for example, both are normal distributions.
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It is a probability that you would use prior to getting any other information about the person. If, for example, you knew the person read Newsweek or a similar news magazine, you might feel the chances of the person being a college graduate were more than the 1 in 20 in the general population. The illustration above suggests an element that is frequently present in discussions of prior probabilities—subjective probability assessment. 05 is a statement of degree of belief∗ , not an objective statement based on repeated experiments or some scientific fact.