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Implement partial non-centered hierarchical model #10

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jdehning opened this issue Apr 17, 2020 · 0 comments
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Implement partial non-centered hierarchical model #10

jdehning opened this issue Apr 17, 2020 · 0 comments
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jdehning commented Apr 17, 2020

In order to parametrize better the hierarchical model, a non-centered parametrical distribution is better when the data is not very informative, see for example:
https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/Diagnosing_biased_Inference_with_Divergences.html
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7b85/fb48a077c679c325433fbe13b87560e12886.pdf

I implemented it for the normally distributed hierarchical variables (function model.hierarchical_normal), however it could be that a partial hierarchical parametrization is better from an sampling standpoint (see pdf above). Unsure whether it is worse digging deeper into it.

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