[R-sig-ME] Specifying bivariate priors with different distributions in MCMCglmm

[Jarrod Hadfield]

Hi,

By specifying propfledged as “categorical” you are treating each unique value of propfledged as a categorical variable. My guesses that this is not your intention. Binomial models should be of the form cbind(number_successes, number_failures)~ with family=“multinomial2”. The priors should then ‘work’ in the sense that they are of the right dimension. However, you shouldn’t fix the residual variance unless the binomial only has 1 trial (i.e. is Bernoulli).

Cheers,

Jarrod




On 6 Nov 2023, at 13:00, Cones, Alexandra G. <alex.cones using uky.edu> wrote:

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