Package: makemyprior
Title: Intuitive Construction of Joint Priors for Variance Parameters
Version: 1.2.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Ingeborg", "Hem", email = "ingeborg.hem@ntnu.no", role = c("cre", "aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0008-3229-0184")),
    person("Geir-Arne", "Fuglstad", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-4995-2152")),
    person("Andrea", "Riebler", role = "aut", comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0004-3998-4032")))
Description: 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. Details can be found in the accompanying scientific paper: Hem, Fuglstad, Riebler (2024, Journal of Statistical Software, <doi:10.18637/jss.v110.i03>).
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: https://github.com/ingebogh/makemyprior
BugReports: https://github.com/ingebogh/makemyprior/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: ggplot2, Matrix, methods, shiny, shinyjs, shinyBS, visNetwork,
        rlang, MASS
Suggests: rstan (>= 2.21.2), INLA (>= 20.03.17), knitr, rmarkdown
Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)
Additional_repositories: https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable/
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2024-08-23 10:35:16 UTC; ingebogh
Author: Ingeborg Hem [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3229-0184>),
  Geir-Arne Fuglstad [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4995-2152>),
  Andrea Riebler [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3998-4032>)
Maintainer: Ingeborg Hem <ingeborg.hem@ntnu.no>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2024-08-23 11:10:06 UTC
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