After quite a long time sitting as a development package epidist is now on CRAN. It extends brms with a framework for epidemiological extensions.
Noa Kallioinen
@n-kall.bsky.social
Bayesian statistician working in ecological modelling at Helsinki University (EnvStat group) Stan developer (R packages team) Maintainer of priorsense (https://mc-stan.org/priorsense) Creator of priorDB (https://arviz-devs.github.io/priorDB/)
New preprint "Proximal R2 Priors for Structured Variance Allocation" with @javieraguilar.bsky.social, David Kohns, Eric Yanchenko, Shonosuke Sugasawa, Kaoru Irie, I, and @paulbuerkner.com arxiv.org/abs/2610.38879 🧵
Proximal R2 Priors for Structured Variance Allocation
Scientific domain knowledge in regression often concerns structural relationships among model terms, which are typically encoded as parameter constraints. Since such relationships rarely hold exactly ...
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priorsense: an R package for prior and likelihood sensitivity checks v1.4.0 is now on CRAN News: - joined the @mc-stan.org project. Docs at mc-stan.org/priorsense and dev at github.com/stan-dev/pri... - reviewed by @ropensci.org - paper in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social - more vignettes
Prior Diagnostics and Sensitivity Analysis
Provides functions for prior and likelihood sensitivity analysis in Bayesian models. Currently it implements methods to determine the sensitivity of the posterior to power-scaling perturbations of the...
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