Word.ws English Dictionary

Jeffreys priors

Jeffreys priors is the plural of Jeffreys prior.

Meaning of Jeffreys prior

Noun

Jeffreys prior (plural Jeffreys priors)

  1. In Bayesian probability, a non-informative (objective) prior distribution for a parameter space; it is proportional to the square root of the determinant of the Fisher information matrix.

Questions about Jeffreys priors

What is Jeffreys priors the plural of?
Jeffreys priors is the plural of Jeffreys prior.

Words near Jeffreys priors in the dictionary

  1. Jeffrey pine beetles
  2. Jeffrey pines
  3. jeffreyite
  4. Jeffreys
  5. Jeffreys prior
  6. Jeffreys priors
  7. Jeffrie
  8. Jeffries
  9. Jeffrieses
  10. Jeffry
  11. jeffs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Jeffreys priors (page history and authors); Jeffreys prior (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Jeffreys priors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/jeffreys_priors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.