About prior distribution

Longwen Zhao

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Apr 4, 2021, 11:13:13 AM4/4/21

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Dear INLA friends:

I have a question about an argument "names(inla.models()$prior)"

If I use this argument, it will give me 43 different prior including gamma, flat. But as I know, we can only assign gaussian prior to parameters, is that correct? why there are so many priors?

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Longwen

Longwen Zhao

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Apr 4, 2021, 11:20:29 AM4/4/21

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I think these priors are set for precisions, right?

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Apr 5, 2021, 6:24:22 AM4/5/21

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yes, for the non-gaussian part of the model.

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Apr 5, 2021, 6:29:05 AM4/5/21

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these might be helpful

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00860
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06350

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