How to Create a Table of Parameter Statistics from a Hierarchical Bayes Analysis

This article describes how to go from a Hierarchical Bayes model output:

To a table of parameter statistics from the Hierarchical Bayes model: 

Requirements

• A document containing a Hierarchical Bayes output. 

Method

1. Select the Hierarchical Bayes output. 

2. From the menus, select Anything > Advanced Analysis > MaxDiff > Diagnostic > Parameter Statistics Table. A table containing the Hierarchical Bayes parameter statistics will be generated:

The table shows the following statistics:

• mean = the mean
• se_mean = the standard error of the mean
• sd = standard deviation
• n_eff = the effective sample size
• Rhat = the potential scale reduction statistic of the main parameters

What we want to see are values of 100 or more in the n_eff column and ideally 1.1 or less in the Rhat column. If there are problems with convergence, this can be corrected by rerunning the model with more iterations. A good rule of thumb is to keep doubling the number of iterations until the model converges. For more information, see Checking Convergence When Using Hierarchical Bayes for MaxDiff.

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