# \#parameter-reduction

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## [How to leverage conjugate priors](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-leverage-conjugate-priors/56636)

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**Author:** [@EvoArt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/EvoArt)\
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**Last updated:** [April 3, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-leverage-conjugate-priors/56636 "2021-04-03T21:51:46Z")

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I have a Turing model that I’m using to estimate how evenly distributed some count variables of interest are. I’m using the concentration parameter of a symmetric Dirichlet distribution as a measure of evenness. A simpli…