Dear Bayesians, I have a question about terminology that has been puzzling me. From a purely structural perspective, a “hierarchical model” could be described as one where a parameter itself is modeled as a function of other parameter(s)—a “turtles all the way down” structure :turtle: :turtle: …

Andrew Gelman has a post about this . I use the term “hierarchical” all the time and I use it loosely. But once I need to convey precise information about what my model is doing, I stop trying to use English language to describe it and switch to code or math. The same is true for things like “rando…

Terminology: "hierarchical", "multi-level", "mixed effect", "partially pooled" models - is it all the same?

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jessegrabowski December 27, 2024, 4:23pm 4

I also asked a similar question here and it generated some discussion that might be useful (or not!)

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Terminology: "hierarchical", "multi-level", "mixed effect", "partially pooled" models - is it all the same?

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