prior distribution
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prior
adjective[before noun]
uk/praɪər/us/praɪr/
formal
existing or happening before something else, or before a ...
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distribution
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/us/ˌdɪs.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/
the process of giving things out to several people, or spreading or ...
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The change in thepriordistributionof g reduces optimum rates by at most 8 % and increases posterior expected utilities by at most £3/ha.
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The procedure adopts a skewed t-distribution as apriordistributionof marker effects.
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This relative quantification does not rely on apriordistributionwhen the null and alternative hypotheses each correspond to single parameter values (8;9).
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The second is thepriordistribution, which represents other information available to the investigator.
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Thepriordistributionfor the range is drawn as a dotted line.
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The calculation of costs (and benefits) depends on apriordistributionof rights of action and claims on resources.
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Two posterior distributions for net benefit are employed based on apriordistributionfrom previous studies (shown) and an uninformative prior.
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Thepriordistributionis combined with the information in the data to form a posterior distribution for the parameters.
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The specification of apriordistributionin such a context must be transparent and defensible.
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Further investigations might include information about the expected number of alleles maintained in the population in thepriordistributionof our model.
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The objective of this empirical marginalpriordistributionis to represent the prior influence on the marker effects.
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Note that we use the samepriordistributionfor the 29 domestic parameters in both the open- and closed-economy settings.
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Two posterior cost-effectiveness acceptability curves are generated based on apriordistributionfrom previous studies (shown) and an uninformative prior.
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Depending on the specification of thepriordistributionand the likelihood function, the posterior distribution may or may not be represented in a closed form.
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The conditional distribution for ti is generated k, from the conditional likelihood and the half-normalpriordistribution.
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The main focus in this regard should be on careful assessment of the decision maker's ownpriordistribution.
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In addition, the effects of changing thepriordistributionfor the unknown model parameters and of various extensions of the model are examined.
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Thepriordistributionof the additive marker effects was as described in the previous section in expressions (1) and (2).
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In addition, thepriordistributionof the degrees of freedom of the t-distribution (v) was flat between 1 and 100.
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