Look up prior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term prior may refer to: Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) Prior convictions...

Madeleine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. She was born in Blackpool...

A prior probability distribution of an uncertain quantity, simply called the prior, is its assumed probability distribution before some evidence is taken...

probability distribution family as the prior probability distribution p ( θ ) {\displaystyle p(\theta )} , the prior and posterior are then called conjugate...

The speed prior is a complexity measure similar to Kolmogorov complexity, except that it is based on computation speed as well as program length. The...

Mark William Prior (born September 7, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago...

Matthew Prior (21 July 1664 – 18 September 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. He is also known as a contributor to The Examiner. Prior was born in...

Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as A. N. Prior, was a New Zealand–born logician and philosopher. Prior (1957) founded...

Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its...

Prior restraint (also referred to as prior censorship or pre-publication censorship) is censorship imposed, usually by a government or institution, on...

Prior art (also known as state of the art or background art) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular...

Jaxon Prior (born 4 June 2001) is a professional Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football...

David Prior may refer to: David Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton (born 1954), British Conservative Party politician David Prior (musician) (born 1972),...

William Prior may refer to: William Wain Prior (1876–1946), Danish general William Prior (priest) (1883–1969), Anglican priest William Matthew Prior (1806–1873)...

In Bayesian statistics, the Jeffreys prior is a non-informative prior distribution for a parameter space. Named after Sir Harold Jeffreys, its density...

Edward Prior may refer to: Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920), Canadian politician Edward Schroeder Prior (1857–1932), art professor at Cambridge University...

The Prior Analytics (Ancient Greek: Ἀναλυτικὰ Πρότερα; Latin: Analytica Priora) is a work by Aristotle on reasoning, known as syllogistic, composed around...

Natasha Prior (born 20 January 1998) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back for Newcastle Jets in the A-League Women and...

Susan Prior is an Australian actress. Susan Prior graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. Prior has worked extensively with the...

James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC (11 October 1927 – 12 December 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from...

Lord Prior may refer to: Jim Prior, Baron Prior (1927–2016), British politician and peer David Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton (born 1954), British peer...

Matthew James Prior (born 26 February 1982) is a South African-born English former cricketer, who played for England in Test cricket and for Sussex County...

In statistics, the g-prior is an objective prior for the regression coefficients of a multiple regression. It was introduced by Arnold Zellner. It is...

António, Prior of Crato (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu]; 1531 – 26 August 1595), sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist"...

Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior, KCIE, FRGS (9 December 1896 – 11 October 1972) was a British Indian Army and Indian Political Service officer. The only son...

Billy Prior is a fictional character in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy of novels set during World War I. Prior, often called by his second name, is...

Christopher Thomas Prior (born December 1990) is an English actor, known for his lead role as Sergey in the British-Estonian historical romantic drama...

Gracie Prior (born 2 December 2004) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for Women's Super League club Manchester...

David Gifford Leathes Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton (born 3 December 1954) is the former chairman of NHS England and chairman of University College Hospital...

Allan Prior (13 January 1922, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, – 1 June 2006) was an English television scriptwriter and novelist, who wrote over...