priors
noun
Meaning
- A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
- A chief magistrate in Italy.
- (law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.
- In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution, one based on information or belief before additional data is collected.
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