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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 an "uninformative prior"? Can we ever have one with truly no information?

An appealing property of formal noninformative priors is the "frequentist-matching property" : it means that a posterior 95%-credibility interval is also (at least, approximately) a 95%-confidence int …
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