Jeffreys prior

English

Etymology

Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys.

Noun

Jeffreys prior (plural Jeffreys priors)

  1. (probability) 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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