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* ? and ? are parameters of the prior distribution (beta distribution); hence hyperparameters.In principle, priors can be decomposed into many conditional levels of distributions, so-called hierarchical priors.

Informative priors

An informative prior expresses specific, definite information about a variable.An example is a prior distribution for the temperature at noon tomorrow.A reasonable approach is to make the prior a normal distribution with expected value

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