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Revision as of 00:37, 17 January 2011
An ignorance prior is a prior probability distribution where equal probability is assigned to all possibilities. For instance, at the beginning of a Monty Hall game, the player has no information about which of the three doors has the car behind it. Thus e should assign 1/3 probability to each.
