Set initial hyperparameters and parameter before starting Gibbs sampler for Horseshoe prior.
set_horseshoe(local_sparsity = 1, group_sparsity = 1, global_sparsity = 1)# S3 method for horseshoespec
print(x, digits = max(3L, getOption("digits") - 3L), ...)
is.horseshoespec(x)
# S3 method for horseshoespec
knit_print(x, ...)
Initial local shrinkage hyperparameters
Initial group shrinkage hyperparameters
Initial global shrinkage hyperparameter
Any object
digit option to print
not used
Set horseshoe prior initialization for VAR family.
local_sparsity: Initial local shrinkage
group_sparsity: Initial group shrinkage
global_sparsity: Initial global shrinkage
In this package, horseshoe prior model is estimated by Gibbs sampling, initial means initial values for that gibbs sampler.
Carvalho, C. M., Polson, N. G., & Scott, J. G. (2010). The horseshoe estimator for sparse signals. Biometrika, 97(2), 465-480.
Makalic, E., & Schmidt, D. F. (2016). A Simple Sampler for the Horseshoe Estimator. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 23(1), 179-182.