Penalising model component complexity: a principled, practical approach to constructing priors

DOI10.1214/16-STS576zbMath1442.62060arXiv1403.4630OpenAlexW1487139063MaRDI QIDQ1790379

Thiago G. Martins, Sigrunn H. Sørbye, Andrea Riebler, Håvard Rue, Daniel P. Simpson

Publication date: 2 October 2018

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4630

zbMATH Keywords

information geometry hierarchical models disease mapping Bayesian theory interpretable prior distributions prior on correlation matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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