The 90% target represents a global assessment, and represents the trialists' prior judgment of a clinically significant outcome (Adjei et al, 2009).
The outlook was dim: a prior judgment in Ethiopian courts had forced a pregnant girl to stay with her captor, and no woman had ever been awarded a self-defense ruling.
Peter's reign has been at the centre of all debates over Russian history, since any attempt to define its periods and to assess Russia's development in modern times requires a prior judgment of the reign and work of Peter I. (For a more detailed biography, see Peter I).
Given the sensitivity of the Bayesian methods to 'quality' of the prior, careful judgment is required in deciding whether it is better to invest resources into extensive data collection or complex modeling.
You won't know until you try, without passing prior judgment.
If the majority judgment on p is consistent with collective judgments on prior propositions, this majority judgment prevails; otherwise the collective judgment on p is determined by the implications of prior judgments.
The person begins with a subjective probability P0 that encapsulates her "prior" judgments about the plausibilities of propositions (or, more accurately, her initial epistemic prejudices).
Therefore, precursor-based methods that adopt the Bayesian theorem to update prior judgments on event probabilities using empirical data have been proposed.
The perceptions of persons with dementia were difficult to assess [ 24], and the inclusion of their perspectives was obstructed by prior judgments that one could not rely on the testimony of persons with dementia [ 25, 26].
