Prior distributions — normal • artemis

Normal prior distribution

normal(location = 0, scale = 1, autoscale = TRUE)

exponential(rate = 1, autoscale = FALSE)

Arguments

location: numeric, the mean of the distribution
scale: numeric, the sd/scale of the distribution
autoscale: logical, whether the priors should be scaled. See ?rstanarm::priors for details on the scaling.
rate: numeric, the rate of the exponential distribution

named list

Parameters for the normal distribution, to be used for setting priors on model estimates.

These are styled after the distributions in rstanarm.

Matt Espe