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0 Post author: RolfAndreassen 31 October 2012 02:35AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 31 October 2012 08:20:17PM *  1 point [-]

For the math on Bernoulli trials, see Jaynes and wikipedia for the Rule of Succession:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/cc18i.pdf

And this looks like a pretty good paper on setting priors by maximum entropy and transformation groups. http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prior.pdf