Dear List, I'm currently working on disease mapping using hierarchical bayesian modelling for my phd project. I would like to know how to choose the initial values and how to choose the prior and the parameter values for vague prior distribution. I hope anybody that works in this area can give me some ideas or suggest some papers that discuss on this matter. Thank you very much. -Linda- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask] To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] Before mailing, please check the archive at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html Please do not mail attachments to the list. To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list