Hello,
I don't have much knowledge about how to use JAGS to do bayesian regression, I have seen several examples but my data is left censored and I am not sure how to construct the likelihood function, if someone could post a sample JAGS code for bayesian regression for left-censored data, that would be great. for example I want to predict y and my predictors x1,x2,x3 such that y ~a1*x1+a2*x2+a3*x3 and x3 is left censored some values are below LOD values (LOD is also a vector, same size of x3) for left-censored data x3, I know I can do the following, # JAGS for left censored x3 model { for (i in 1:N) { above.lod[i] ~ dinterval(x3[i], llodVec[i]) x3[i] ~ dnorm(mu, tau) } mu ~ dnorm(0, .001) tau <- 1/pow(sigma,2) sigma~dt(0,1/625,1) } but where and how I should include the regression . In short I want to combine the above and below code in one jags code, since I am new to JAGS not sure what I am doing is correct. I appreciate any help and suggestions. thanks, #JAGS for regression for( i in 1:N ) { y[i] ~ dnorm( y.hat[i] , tau ) y.hat[i] <- a1*x1[i]+a2*x2[i]*a3*x3[i] } tau <- 1/pow(sigma,2) sigma ~ dunif( 0 , 10 ) for ( j in 1:3 ) { a[j] ~ dnorm( 0 , 1.0E-3 ) } } regression <http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/regression> bayesian <http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/bayesian> jags <http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jags> In short, I am not sure how to construct the likelihood function for this kind of problem, any help would be appreciated thanks -- D [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.