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subjective prior
subjective prior A subjective prior is a person’s pre-existing belief about the state of the world before current sensory information is taken into account.
A subjective prior is a person’s pre-existing belief about the state of the world before current sensory information is taken into account. In a Bayesian view of learning and decision-making, this belief is combined with new information to form an updated posterior belief that guides behaviour.