Uniform Prior Distribution for Models

Creates an object representing the prior distribution on models for BAS.

Usage

uniform()

Value

returns an object of class "prior", with the family name Uniform.

Details

The Uniform prior distribution is a commonly used prior in BMA, and is a special case of the independent Bernoulli prior with probs=.5. The implied prior distribution on model size is binomial(p, .5).

See also

bas.lm, beta.binomial,Bernoulli,

Other priors modelpriors: Bernoulli(), Bernoulli.heredity(), beta.binomial(), tr.beta.binomial(), tr.poisson(), tr.power.prior()

Author

Merlise Clyde

Examples

uniform()
#> $family
#> [1] "Uniform"
#> 
#> $hyper.parameters
#> [1] 0.5
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "prior"