Sentence examples for specified prior from inspiring English sources

Goal achievement considers a program successful to the extent that it realizes the goals specified prior to the reform.

This distribution is called an a priori distribution because it is specified prior to the experiment of drawing balls from the urn.

In addition, the number of principal components need not be specified prior to modeling.

The dichotomous independent variables can be subdivided into variables for which the distribution is specified prior to data sampling, called variates, and into variables for which the distribution is not specified prior to data sampling, but is obtained from data sampling, called covariates.

He notes that this move requires that the natural properties are specified prior to specifying the laws, which means that we can't reductively specify naturalness in terms of laws.

Compared to other feature extraction methods, KPCA has the following main advantages: (1) nonlinear data is effectively dealt with, (2) no nonlinear optimization is involved, (3) the calculations in KPCA are as simple as in standard PCA, and (4) the number of PCs need not be specified prior to modeling.

We also ran MCMCTree without using the sequence data but with specified calibration priors to make sure that the effective priors are sensible when compared with the specified priors.

Of particular importance is the degree to which the mean, variance, and shape of distributions of parameters are consistent with specified priors in the Bayesian estimation model.

Consistent with Bayesian theory (see e.g., Kaplan 2014), specifying prior distributions on the model parameters is a natural way to quantify uncertainty here in both the propensity score and outcome equations.

In such cases, specifying prior values can be problematic.

As for all Bayesian analyses specifying prior values can be problematic and many researchers feel uneasy in doing so [10], [11], [12].