Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Dflat() prior

Here is an example of replacing the "dflat()" prior with "dnorm()" prior, yet without much explanation.

1 comment:

Shige said...

Page 2 of Congdon's "Applied Bayesian Modeling" has a brief discussion of this issue. The main problem is that the flat prior is improper and may create identification problem. A normal prior with wide range (large variance) is minimally informative and proper.

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