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Bayesian Time Stratified Petersen Analysis System
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Replace prior on variance components from dgamma #11

Open cschwarz-stat-sfu-ca opened 5 years ago

cschwarz-stat-sfu-ca commented 5 years ago

We use the dgamma prior for variance components. However, Speigelhalter and others argue that this is holdover from the pre-computer era and a better prior may be uniform(?).

This should be fixed in all of the modules.