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\section{Introduction}
Currently in the known pulsar searches we have been using a uniform prior distribution between zero and some
abitrary, arbitrary, but large, upper value e.g.
\begin{equation}
p(h_0|I) = \begin{cases}
\frac{1}{h_{\mathrm{max}}} & \text{if } \geq 0 \leq h_0 < h_{\mathrm{max}} \\
0 & \text{otherwise}.
\end{cases}
\end{equation}
However, this type of prior place a lot of probability at large values of $h_0$ where in fact there is very little prior probability.
A As $h_0$ is a scale
factor factor, the general least informative prior is the Jeffreys prior of the form
\begin{equation}\label{eq:jeffreys}
p(h_0|I) \propto \frac{1}{h_0},
\end{equation}