The absolute beautify of social media. So many useful resources and ideas, including discovering the ‘sample_prior = “only”’ argument in brms!
James Bartlett
Bayesians: does anyone (@solomonkurz.bsky.social maybe?) have a good resource for how to set priors for beginners? Such as what kind of information in past papers you can use to inform your choices?
I found this but any resources welcome! svmiller.com/blog/2021/02...
James Bartlett
svmiller.com
Here, I riff on how students should think about priors for a Bayesian analysis. It seems daunting, but it just means you should use your head and not expect software to think of your data/model for...
