Sentence examples for prior guess from inspiring English sources

This way the user can tune the peakedness of the prior density around the prior guess, p0 j ; increasing w0 increases the peakedness and vice versa.

With this set-up, we can propose a prior guess of the vector of regression coefficients, and encode our belief in this guess with g.

Note that in the above prior specification, the Uniform 0,1) distribution may be replaced by a vague beta distribution with a mean consistent with a physician's prior guess of the response rate under each model.

A hypothetical true intake vector, prior ("guess") intake vector, and mean calibrated intake vector from both the multiplicative and the Bayesian calibration methods are shown in Figure 1 for each of the four hypothetical scenarios.

The density of the joint prior distribution of Θ and Λ has the form [ 10] Above, p (| ν t, S t ) is the density of a scaled inverted chi-square distribution on ν t degrees of freedom, with S t 2 interpretable as a prior guess for and H = [ σ β, ν a, ν p, ν h, S a, S p, S h ] is a set of known hyper-parameters.

With given prior knowledge about the facies of the reservoir geology, initial realizations are generated by commonly used software as the prior guesses of the unknown field.

Consequently, they will be less efficient when these prior guesses substantially deviate from the truth.

The latter was achieved indirectly by specifying prior guesses for the median and 5th or 95th percentile [ 33].

Slob et al. (2005) proposes to favor designs with more than four dose groups to avoid the risk of unfavorable dose placements because of incorrect prior guesses of model parameters (see also Rhomberg 2005).

Here, allowing for our ignorance on the nature of unrest (see above for Node 2), we estimate that 50%of unrest might be magmatic and so the prior best guess at Node 3 (Λ3, see Figure 1B and Marzocchi et al. 2008) is set at (1/6)/0.5= 0.33.

Prior to 9/11, my guess is that most Americans didn't realise there were up to two million Muslims living in their country and they certainly didn't know or think much about Islam at all... just as they don't know or think much about the world outside the US.