Jeffreys priors

A form of Jeffreys prior — 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.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Jeffreys prior
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