Non-informative Priors

"Non-informative prior distribution: A prior distribution which is non-commital about a parameter, for example, a uniform distribution."
Everitt (1998)

• DATTA, Gauri Sankar and Malay GHOSHOn the Invariance of Noninformative Priors, The Annals of Statistics, 1996, Vol. 24, No. 1, 141]159
• IRONY, Telba Z. and Nozer D. SINGPURWALLA, Noninformative Priors Do Not Exist: A Discussion with Jos´e M. Bernardo
• SMITH, George P., Expressing Prior Ignorance of a Probability Parameter
• SYVERSVEEN, Anne Randi, Noninformative Bayesian Priors. Interpretation and Problems with Construction and Applications.
• YANG, Ruoyong and James O. BERGER, A Catalog of Noninformative Priors

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