makemyprior: Intuitive Construction of Joint Priors for Variance Parameters

Tool for easy prior construction and visualization. It helps to formulates joint prior distributions for variance parameters in latent Gaussian models. The resulting prior is robust and can be created in an intuitive way. A graphical user interface (GUI) can be used to choose the joint prior, where the user can click through the model and select priors. An extensive guide is available in the GUI. The package allows for direct inference with the specified model and prior. Using a hierarchical variance decomposition, we formulate a joint variance prior that takes the whole model structure into account. In this way, existing knowledge can intuitively be incorporated at the level it applies to. Alternatively, one can use independent variance priors for each model components in the latent Gaussian model.

Version: 1.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: ggplot2, Matrix, methods, shiny, shinyjs, shinyBS, visNetwork, rlang, MASS
Suggests: rstan (≥ 2.21.2), INLA (≥ 20.03.17), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2024-03-06
Author: Ingeborg Hem [cre, aut], Geir-Arne Fuglstad [aut], Andrea Riebler [aut]
Maintainer: Ingeborg Hem <ingeborg.hem at ntnu.no>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation: no
Additional_repositories: https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable/
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: makemyprior results

Documentation:

Reference manual: makemyprior.pdf
Vignettes: latin_square
make_prior
neonatal_mortality
wheat_breeding

Downloads:

Package source: makemyprior_1.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: makemyprior_1.2.0.zip, r-release: makemyprior_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: makemyprior_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): makemyprior_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): makemyprior_1.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): makemyprior_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: makemyprior archive

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