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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?

Jeffreys distributions also suffer from inconsistencies: the Jeffreys priors for a variable over $(-\infty,\infty)$ or over $(0,\infty)$ are improper, which is not the case for the Jeffreys prior of a …
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