[R--gR] Modelformulae
Poul Svante Eriksen
svante at math.aau.dk
Fri Aug 20 09:33:27 CEST 2004
A few comments - just to clear my mind.
Steffen Lauritzen wrote:
>Dear gR-folks
>
>The Danish gR-gang have been talking about describing a model language for
>graphical models that
>
>1) could specify at least chain graph models, based on the most general
>hierarchical mixed models as
>described in Lauritzen (1996) [my book], section 6.4, pages 199-216. (More
>general than MIM-models).
>
>
Are we limiting the discussion to the Conditionally Gaussian(CG) case
with independent and identically distributed observations?
That would make life much more easy and clearly rule out X*Y*Z between
continuous variables.
And I have no problem with interpreting "~" as "log f ~" as long as we
are careful to include quadratic terms of continuos variables.
But it also rules out things like ~Z+log(X) and is far from having the
same flexibility as the BUGS syntax.
We might allow ~Z*(Z+log(X))|X and thereby leaving CG, but sticking to
gaussian error.
If we want a more general BUGS/glim-like syntax, we need to consider,
how to include information on link and errordistribution. And it would
be nice
to facilitate correlation across unit, e.g. by allowing ~X*B(X)|B(X),
where B is the backshift operator.
Regards, svante
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