Sentence examples for priors itself from inspiring English sources

The central idea behind hierarchical Bayesian models (Gelman et al 2013) is that the same pattern of putting a prior over statistical hypotheses can be repeated on the level of priors itself.

First, the prior is constructed in a semi-automatic fashion from the historical data in the sense that the prior itself is just a weighted likelihood and thus there is minimal subjective prior elicitation.

Only the prior art itself will be brought to the examiner's attention".

No object can be temporally prior to itself, however.

By relying on reductio ad absurdum, he concludes that if essence were to be secondary, it would have to exist prior to itself, which is impossible.

The composite is not the matter, since "nothing is in any way a constitutive part of or naturally prior to itself".

One way to see this is to note that ontological priority is irreflexive and asymmetrical: nothing can be ontologically prior to itself, or be ontologically prior to something that is also ontologically prior to it (see van Cleve 1999).

Results showed that handling/injection had no effect upon L/D behavioural profiles in either test-naı̈ve or test-experienced subjects, and confirmed that prior experience itself did not modify the primary indices of anxiety in this test.

Then that new internal state, combining present and just prior information, itself recycles … In principle, this neuronal hall of mirrors can keep a pattern alive indefinitely.' (Lloyd 2004: 282).

Although such activity may be triggered or enhanced by task-related top-down influences or neuromodulatory activity (for example in situations where sensory information is ambiguous) [6], [17], it need not contain specific prior information itself.

We performed this experiment because it was shown in CAFA1 [ 41, 50] that the prior distribution itself often has relatively good prediction performance, particularly when no easily identified homologs with known function are available for a query protein.