elicitation

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) The act of eliciting.
 * 2) * 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd.), p. 19
 * The exact interpretation of these hyperparameters becomes clearer once you have seen their role in the posterior and, hence, we defer a deeper discussion of prior elicitation until the next section.
 * 1) Something that is elicited.

Translations

 * German: Erheben,, Ermitteln, , Erfassen,