Maybe it’s unfortunate that the same word is overloaded to cover “prior probability” (e.g., probability 0.2 that dogs are bad), and “prior information” in the sense of “a mathematical object that represents all of your starting information plus the way you learn from experience.”
Maybe it’s unfortunate that the same word is overloaded to cover “prior probability” (e.g., probability 0.2 that dogs are bad), and “prior information” in the sense of “a mathematical object that represents all of your starting information plus the way you learn from experience.”