Etymology

Jeffreys prior

Today it means: In Bayesian probability, a non-informative (objective) prior distribution for a parameter space; it is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix. Full definition →

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Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys.

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