Hi, While building models and trying out different priors, I noticed that using a prior that seemed more sensible based on my sensitivity analysis decreased my loo performance. The old prior, the one before the sensitivity analysis, also seems to sample slightly better. Would it be correct to go w…

[image] avehtari: Can you post some figures with explanations how to interpret sensitivity from those? I started with this prior as a starting point: [psa] My interpretation of this was, that most of the curves were too steep. For most of the parameter space a unit chance in LOO would have n…

Balancing loo performance and Prior sensitivity analysis

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avehtari August 3, 2019, 6:29pm 10

Excellent figures. It seems the mystery is now solved?

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Balancing loo performance and Prior sensitivity analysis

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