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BAS (version 1.2.2)

tr.poisson: Truncated Poisson Prior Distribution for Models

Description

Creates an object representing the prior distribution on models for BAS using a truncated Poisson Distribution on the Model Size

Usage

tr.poisson(lambda, trunc)

Arguments

lambda
parameter in the Poisson distribution representing expected model size with infinite predictors
trunc
parameter that determines truncation in the distribution i.e. P(M; lambda, trunc) = 0 if M > trunc

Value

hyerparameters.

Details

The Poisson prior distribution on model size is obtained by assigning each variable inclusion indicator independent Bernoulli distributions with probability w, and then taking a limit as p goes to infinity and w goes to zero, such that p*w converges to lambda. The Truncated version assigns zero probability to all models of size M > trunc.

See Also

bas.lm, Bernoulli,uniform