Type:
Volume:
3(2)
Pages:
Online
Year:
2009
Publisher:
Technology Innovations in Statistics Education (TISE)
URL:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kb6x0bw
Abstract:
An attractive way of introducing Bayesian thinking is through a discrete model approach<br>where the parameter is assigned a discrete prior. Two generic R functions are introduced for<br>implementing posterior and predictive calculations for arbitrary choices of prior and sampling<br>densities. Several examples illustrate the usefulness of these functions in summarizing the<br>posterior distributions for one and two parameter problems and for comparing models by the use<br>of Bayes factors
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