BRMS: Can I fit only random effects for a subset of data, and not have this data impact the remaining parameter estimates?

Ahh. I can not really comprehend the consequence of that model. Estimates for my “real” data do seem practically unchanged, but estimates for the hypothetical data are a lot wider than if I fit the model with only “real” data and one hypothetical observation.

The best solution right now seems to be fitting a lot of very similar models. My model i rather small, and only takes about a minute to sample 4x2000 iters, so I may just let my CPU suffer and fit 200 very similar models.

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