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Why adjust priors for the simplicity of data distributions?

1 November 2018 DRB

D. R. Bickel, “An explanatory rationale for priors sharpened into Occam’s razors,” Working Paper, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1412875, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1412875 (2018). 2018 preprint

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