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Conjugate Prior

A prior family chosen so the posterior lands in the same family as the prior, making the update a closed-form change of hyperparameters instead of an integral. Conjugacy trades modeling flexibility for exact, instant computation.

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A prior family chosen so the posterior lands in the same family as the prior, making the update a closed-form change of hyperparameters instead of an integral. Conjugacy trades modeling flexibility for exact, instant computation.

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