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A prior that express lack of detailed information or lack of any information at all.
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What is the point of non-informative priors?
Why even have non-informative priors? They don't provide information about $\theta$. So why use them? Why not only use informative priors? For example, suppose $ \theta \in [0,1]$. Then is $\theta \si …