elicitation

From elicit +‎ -ation.

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elicitation (countable and uncountable, plural elicitations)

1. The act of eliciting.
   • 2003, Gary Koop, Bayesian Econometrics (John Wiley & 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.

2. Something that is elicited.