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Vince Buffalo edited this page May 11, 2019
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Wisharts
Wisharts are stubborn, and often not the right prior for covariance matrices — they were a popular choice for being a conjugate prior for the MVN. They are numerically unstable, however, and I've had numerous issues with this:
Rejecting initial value:
Error evaluating the log probability at the initial value.
Exception: wishart_lpdf: LDLT_Factor of random variable is not positive de
finite. last conditional variance is 0.00509742. (in 'model2fcb3ae9e570_
964295899df0e36ebb89bdbe2adb540e' at line 23)