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Bayesian philosophy treats parameters as random variables; data are used to update the knowledge about the parameters’ distributions. The Bayesian might treat the parameters’ distributions as the uncertainty about the knowledge of the parameters; Bayes’ Theorem provides a means of incorporating prior knowledge about the uncertainty with current data.
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Pardo, S. (2020). Bayesian Analyses. In: Statistical Analysis of Empirical Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43328-4_12
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