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Fit models to data from unmarked animals using Stan. Uses a similar interface to the R package 'unmarked', while providing the advantages of Bayesian inference and allowing estimation of random effects.

Home Page:https://hmecology.github.io/ubms/

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Default priors too informative in some cases

kenkellner opened this issue · comments

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When the true value of a coefficient is relatively large (>3-4 for a standardized covariate), the estimated value might be pulled too much towards zero. Need to set even weaker default priors e.g. normal(0,10).