Eliciting vague but proper maximal entropy priors in Bayesian experiments
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Bayesian inference; Expert opinion; Kullback–Leibler distance; Shannon’s entropy; Noninformative priors; Channel coding; Sensitivity study; Weibull; 65K05; 90C35;All these keywords.
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