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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Michael Prior (born 6 September 1973) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the AFL's Essendon Football Club and the West Coast Eagles...

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 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...

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...

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

Yashin Prior (born 8 August 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Championship club Livingston. In 2012, Prior made...

Spencer Justin Prior (born 22 April 1971) is an English football coach and former professional footballer. He was most recently manager of Papua New Guinea...

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

Jaxon Prior (born 4 June 2001) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League...

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...

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...

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

Prior information may refer to Prior probability A prior information notice (PIN) issued in advance of procurement actions for the purposes of government...

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

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

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

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

John Prior may refer to: John Prior (politician), Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician John D. Prior (1840–1923), British trade unionist John Prior (musician)...

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...

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...

Marina Prior AM (born 18 October 1963) is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. From 1990 to 1993, she starred as...

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