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Update 10_focus_on_priors.ipynb #43

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"In the doctor example, if the doctor we go to has access to patient's history, but only from when the patient was a child and not for their recent years as an adult, they might make the wrong inference about the current cause of a headache. For example, if they don't know that the patient was in a car accident last month and banged their head, they could get the cause of the headache very wrong. \n",
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"The choice of prior is really important! Restricting the range of potential prior distributions to a particular family is frequently beneficial and justifiable. The choice of this family can be based on the type of likelihood function. We will discuss such a choice in the section on [conjugate priors](conjugate_priors).\n",
"Whether we actually know anything about a parameter or not can be expressed via [informative an uninformative priors](informative_uninformative_priors)."
"Whether we actually know anything about a parameter or not can be expressed via [informative and uninformative priors](informative_uninformative_priors)."
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