In a detailed tutorial, @betanalpha makes the case for using a dirichlet prior in ordinal regression models ( Ordinal Regression ). I confess, I wasn’t able to understand all that much of it besides the fact that a dirichlet prior sounds like a good idea. Is there any way to implement a weakly inform…

Dirichlet prior on ordinal regression cutpoints in brms

paul.buerkner February 5, 2021, 8:01pm 2

Right now, the dirichlet cut points are not possible with brms to my understanding.

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