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Article
Report number	hep-ph/0006356
Title	Bayesian Analysis
Author(s)	Prosper, H B
Affiliation	(Florida State Univ. Tallahassee)
Publication	CERN, 2000
In:	Workshop on Confidence Limits, pp.29-47
DOI	10.5170/CERN-2000-005.29
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	After making some general remarks, I consider two examples that illustrate the use of Bayesian Probability Theory. The first is a simple one, the physicist's favorite "toy," that provides a forum for a discussion of the key conceptual issue of Bayesian analysis: the assignment of prior probabilities. The other example illustrates the use of Bayesian ideas in the real world of experimental physics.

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