Determine Prior Distributions
Now let's explore the prior distributions for a Bayesian model, so that we can understand how rstanarm
handles priors. Priors can have a large impact on our model, so it's important to know which prior distributions were used in an estimated model. The songs
dataset is already loaded.
This exercise is part of the course
Bayesian Regression Modeling with rstanarm
Exercise instructions
- Estimate a model predicting
popularity
fromsong_age
- Print a summary of the prior distributions to the screen
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Estimate the model
stan_model <- ___(___ ~ ___, data = songs)
# Print a summary of the prior distributions
___(stan_model)