Why hierarchical models are awesome, tricky, and Bayesian

1 · Thomas Wiecki · Feb. 8, 2017, 3 p.m.
(c) 2017 by Thomas Wiecki Hierarchical models are underappreciated. Hierarchies exist in many data sets and modeling them appropriately adds a boat load of statistical power (the common metric of statistical power). I provided an introduction to hierarchical models in a previous blog post: Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear …...