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Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense by scotty79 on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:35PM (#38757079)
Should you have any beliefs in the absence of data? And if you have some prior data but no additional data now why carve out past as separate thing and call it prior? Why not just call everything you have - data?
Re:Bayesians Moving from Defense to Offense by da39a3ee on Sunday December 24, 2023 @09:32PM (#38759125)
That's precisely how Bayesian inference works! But rather than having to repeat all analysis of prior data sets, we summarize that analysis in the form of a posterior, which becomes the prior for the next analysis.