Talk:Prior probability

Weakly informative prior

Could a more international example be found to explain weakly informative prior? I have no feeling at all for Fahrenheit. There must be some units where the US hasn't made up there own standard? 82.39.162.179 (talk) 11:04, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Short description

The Short description was Probability distribution that would express one's uncertainty before some evidence is taken into account which is 104 characters long and so the article was added to Category:Articles with long short description. I have a "reasonable" understanding of stats, but found the article rather difficult to summarise in just a few words. In the end, I shortened the Short description to Distribution of an uncertain quantity, which is 37 characters and so short enough. Is this new Short description "true" enough? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:31, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

I would write instead Probability distribution used in Bayesian inference. It's 51 characters, so short enough. We shouldn't try to give a definition, just context. Tercer (talk) 12:50, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Strong prior into Prior probability

Would it make more sense to merge in Strong prior and have an expanded article on prior probability altogether? Silvestertaylor (talk) 22:38, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Indeed; a rather obvious case.   Y Merge completed Klbrain (talk) 11:51, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Section on distribution function and the Boltzmann transport equation introduces undefined variables

A comment was left in the main article by accident, asking "How do coordinates ${\bf {r}}$ etc. appear here suddenly?". This refers to the equation $f_{i}=f_{i}(t,{\bf {v_{i}}},{\bf {r_{i}}})$. This is a valid question, hence I am migrating it to the talk page. TarkovsInequality (talk) 07:37, 25 May 2026 (UTC)