priors
Criminal history entries
Priors are previous criminal convictions on someone's record.
The term appears most often in legal contexts where past offenses affect sentencing: The defendant has two priors for assault.
Someone with priors faces harsher penalties than a first-time offender.
In Bayesian statistics, priors are the probability assumptions you start with before seeing new data.
Rear or later
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- BayesianPrior-to-posterior probability approach
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
updating · conditional · estimation · parameters · uncertainty · hypothesis · predictive · evidence
Firmly held belief
- criminalPerson who breaks laws
- recordPreserved account or achievement
- offenseViolation or umbrage
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
felony · misdemeanor · arrest · charges · recidivism · defendant · history · sentencing
Belief formed beforehand
- presumptionBelief held without proof
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
expectation · belief · supposition · conjecture · stereotype · anticipation · forejudgment · notion
Religious seclusion dwelling
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- friarMendicant order member
- monkCloistered religious devotee
superior · cloister · priory · Benedictine · Dominican · Augustinian · ecclesiastical · religious order
posterior
Rear or later
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- BayesianPrior-to-posterior probability approach
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
inference · updating · conditional · estimation · parameters · uncertainty · hypothesis · predictive · evidence · statistical
conviction
Firmly held belief
sentence · felony · misdemeanor · arrest · charges · recidivism · defendant · history · sentencing · jail
preconception
Belief formed beforehand
- presumptionBelief held without proof
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
prejudice · expectation · belief · supposition · conjecture · stereotype · anticipation · forejudgment · notion · impression
monastery
Religious seclusion dwelling
monk · superior · cloister · priory · Benedictine · Dominican · Augustinian · ecclesiastical · religious order · abbot
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- asceticsascetic, ascetics, hermit, hermits, recluse
- Belgian Monasteriesabbeys, Trappists, Benedictines, convents, monasticism
- Catholic figurescardinals, archbishops, abbots, bishops, friars
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, sisters
priorsposteriors
Hindquarters, anatomically speaking
likelihoods · evidence · observations · data
priorssuccessors
Those who follow after
followers · laters · aftermath · consequences · sequels
priorsclean record
Absence of prior offenses
clean slate · first offense · first-time offender · spotless record · innocence
- top priorityMost important item
- high priorityRequiring prompt action
- prior toBefore in time
- low priorityNot requiring immediate attention
- prior commitmentPre-existing obligation
- prior decisions
prior, priority, prioritize, prioritized, prioritizing, prioritizes, prioritization, priories