Please also provide the following information in addition to your question: Operating System: Windows 10 brms Version: I have managed to fit several multilevel nonlinear models and now I am trying to compare them, based on the loo criterion. However, pretty much all my models except for 1 have 3…

Pareto-smoothed importance sampling is a way to approximate the (in your case) leave-one-out posterior. You fit your model once and then for each data point, the loo package re-weights the posterior that you have to approximate the leave-one-out posterior. This is really awesome because it allows y…

Clarification about the purpose of 'reloo' in the loo function

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mmihaylova May 7, 2019, 12:45pm 3

This is a very thorough and easy to understand explanation, thanks!

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