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WORKING PAPER
Prior distributions for Bayesian data analysis in political science
Gelman, AndrewAbstract Prior information is often what makes Bayesian inference work. In the political science examples of which we are aware aware, information needs to come in, whether as regression predictors or regularization (that is, prior distributions) on parameters. We illustrate with a few examples from our own research. Keywords Bayesian inference hierarchical models mixture models prior information File
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