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By using all polling conducted for two months prior (rather than the five most recent polls, as Fox did), CNN basically assured that its debate stage would look a lot like Fox's.

I had taken up the sport a year prior, rather spontaneously after more than a decade of skiing, but had yet to negotiate anything more challenging than a black diamond with refrigerator-size bumps (not easy, or fun, but more annoying than life-threatening).

end{aligned} end{aligned} (8 As shown in Eq. (8), we assume that different communities have different prior rather than sharing the same global prior (P(Y_i = c)).

Because of these types of effects, in some cases, STRFs can reflect statistical properties of the stimuli used for estimation or biases introduced by the estimation algorithm (e.g. the particular prior) rather than actual tuning properties of the underlying neuron [2], [4].

Is the performance better when using prior rather than the no prior approach?

An unchanged CCl would demonstrate that the apparent progression represented a prior, rather than a continuing decrease in GFR.

Unlike previous work on local Bayesian sensitivity for BNP, we pay special attention to the ability of our sensitivity measures to extrapolate to different priors, rather than treating the sensitivity as a measure of robustness per se.

Age estimates for fossil calibrations are treated as probabilistic priors, rather than point estimates [ 73].

The purpose of using weakly informative priors rather than non-informative priors is typically to achieve some stabilization in the MCMC sampling and/or estimation procedure.

Using point priors rather than prior ranges results in poor coverage and bias compared to using a wide prior, even if it is not centered on the true values.

Yet, it uses priors (rather than predictors) in a Bayesian framework and does not enforce a direct correspondence between the MEG/EEG and fMRI sources; that is, imposes "soft" rather than "hard" constraints [Baillet and Garnero, 1997].