Sentence examples for a prior unknown from inspiring English sources

When investigators detect VTG in reference or control males, the findings are often labeled "unexpected" and are sometimes attributed to a prior, unknown exposure to an estrogenic substance (Denslow et al. 2004).

We ran two short runs in Colony (results were identical; between runs and longer runs on a subset of the sample points produced similar values), under a polygynous mating system with prior unknown allele frequencies.

For this analysis, we excluded, in sequence, participants who, at baseline, lived outside of California (n=8867), had a prior or unknown history of any cancer (n=2284), limited their participation to breast cancer research (n=18), reported having had a hysterectomy (n=27 794), had missing data on physical activity (n=594), or had invalid physical activity responses (n=34).

Among all the proposed methods for solving free-surface seepage problems, the extended pressure (EP) method emerges as one of the easiest methods since the boundary conditions are simply imposed on the prescribed outer boundaries and those on the prior unknown free-surface are automatically satisfied.

Critically, we have to assign a prior distribution to the unknown parameters.

We establish consistency of posterior distribution when a Gaussian process prior is used as a prior distribution for the unknown binary regression function.

Although the actual PDF of each y n is unknown, a prior target PDF p ̂ y n is often used, so the objective function in (6) can be simplified as in (8) [14].

Finally, given our Bayesian approach to this problem, we also must establish a prior density for the unknown variance σa.

Firstly, we propose a novel optimization function for the sparse reconstruction problem with the sparsity level unknown as a prior.

It is unknown whether a prior diagnosis of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) affects cancer survival.

A prior distribution P on the unknown parameters is modelled by a DP written as The distribution G that θ follows is treated as an infinite dimensional random variable distributed according to the DP— DP(G|γ, G0).