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Angelayang1981 Posted 18 years ago
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what does "stretching things a little bit" mean

hi, can anyone please explain the meaning of "stretching things a little bit" to me?

I am some difficulty understanding the following paragraph:

"Don't forget the importance of the mean parameter when discussing the different results for the loose and tight priors. A tight prior located away from the true parameter value would not improve the precision of the estimate. Saying that a more or less uniform prior induces bias is stretching things a little bit. I would argue that it is more about the data not being terribly informative and the resulting large variance translates into a "bias" when the parameter space is restricted from above but (effectively) unrestricted from below."

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Hello, Angel-- and welcome to English Forums. stretching things a little bit = exaggerating somewhat; being slightly unrealistic .

  • Hello, Angel-- and welcome to English Forums.
  • stretching things a little bit = exaggerating somewhat; being slightly unrealistic .
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Hello, Angel-- and welcome to English Forums.

stretching things a little bit = exaggerating somewhat; being slightly unrealistic
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