In the past I have had success modelling discrete missing outcome variables by marginalizing over the missing values with log_mix. However, I don’t know how to extend this approach to more than two categories. I had been dealing with missing binary data with the following: target += log_mix( theta[…

The log_mix function is basically just a wrapper for log_sum_exp in the two component case. There was a PR merged into develop that generalized this to the case of more than two components. See https://github.com/stan-dev/math/pull/751 but it is essentially just target += log_sum_exp(log(theta) +…

Log_mix for missing categorical data

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Erik_Ringen July 5, 2019, 1:00pm 7

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Log_mix for missing categorical data

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