AppliedMultiple choice
What does a credible interval say that a confidence interval does not?
- AThat the parameter lies in it with probability , given the prior and the data
- BThat it is narrower than the confidence interval
- CThat it is guaranteed to contain the true value
- DThat it requires no distributional assumptions
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