Hi all, Is there a way to do something like this in pymc3? https://paul-buerkner.github.io/brms/articles/brms_monotonic.html Briefly, I want to model the effect of a monotonic effect of a categorical(ordinal?) variable. As in the link above, Y is life-satisfaction and X is income bracket, for ex…

I have an exact port of this: https://github.com/junpenglao/Planet_Sakaar_Data_Science/blob/master/Ports/brms_monotonic_compare.ipynb

Monotonic categorical effect?

ReverendBae May 28, 2025, 9:28am 5

A useful example from @jonsedar on this topic

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