priors

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Пожалуйста, помогите перевести слово priors из научного текста.

Слово встречается в следующем контексте:
How the priors are themselves constructed in the mind has yet to be investigated in detail. Obviously they are learned by experience, but the exact process is not properly understood. Indeed, some people suspect that the parsimony of Bayesian reasoning leads occasionally to it going spectacularly awry, with whatever process it is that forms the priors getting further and further off-track rather than converging on the correct distribution.

Заранее спасибо

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быжет быть здесь есть какя-то связь с априорной вероятностью?