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> it will coincide with the confidence interval if you assume a uniform prior, that is, if before running the experiment you figure every result is equally likely

Huh? Unless you can bound the set of potential results, this isn't possible. Say I want to estimate the half-life of some material (bounded below, but not above). A uniform prior doesn't exist. How will the credible interval relate to the confidence interval?




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