Quantification of empirical determinacy: the impact of likelihood weighting on posterior location and spread in Bayesian meta-analysis estimated with JAGS and INLA

Sona Hunanyan, Håvard Rue, Martyn Plummer +1

The popular Bayesian meta-analysis expressed by Bayesian normal-normal hierarchical model (NNHM) synthesizes knowledge from several studies and is highly relevant in practice. More…