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Module: meridian.model.prior_distribution
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This file contains an object to store prior distributions.
The PriorDistribution
object contains distributions for various parameters
used by the Meridian model object.
Classes
class IndependentMultivariateDistribution
: Container for a joint distribution created from independent distributions.
class PriorDistribution
: Contains prior distributions for each model parameter.
Functions
distributions_are_equal(...)
: Determine if two distributions are equal.
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Last updated 2025-09-05 UTC.
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