# Using posteriors as new priors

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**Category:** Modeling\
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-posteriors-as-new-priors/12745 "2020-01-21T15:09:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/using-posteriors-as-new-priors/12745/3 "2020-01-21T15:48:55Z")

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Hi @mike-lawrence thank you for your reply! I’ll have to read up on your second suggestion as I have not come across it before. Do you have an links to resources that might be useful?

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