Meanings
nounJeffreys prior (plural Jeffreys priors)
plural Jeffreys priors
- mathematicsIn 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.
Origin
Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys.
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