urgently need your help! In doing bayesian modelling, how do we set prior for the standard deviation of regression slope, so-called hyper-parameter. For instance, y = b0 + b1x1+b2x2+error, where b2 ~ N(0, tau), and tau ~ U(1,1). so, how to set the prior for the tau? Many thanks!

In the following, I modified the example codes in ?rstan so that the modified codes use a hyper parameter as follows Y \sim \text{Normal}(\mu,1), \mu \sim \text{Normal}(hyper, 10), hyper \sim \text{Normal}(-1,1) So, we can describe the prior of hyper parameter in the ususal way. stanmodelcode <…

Many thanks @Jean_Billie ! Is it possible to set those in the function ‘brm’? I would like to set prior for hyper-parameter the brm. Actually I am not familiar with rstan syntax. Thanks.

Sorry, I cannot. I am not familiar with brm package, but only Stan.

You can do this in brms by passing Stan code to brm() via two arguments: prior and stanvars (which adds tau as a parameter). Effectively this is exactly what @Jean_Billie recommends, but leans on brms to create as much of the Stan code as possible. bpriors <- prior(normal(0, 2), class = "Intercept"…

@Jean_Billie Thanks a lot for your kind reply.

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@wpetry Many thanks! It is very helpful! I will try those.

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