Learn Stan with brms, Part III

Center the \(x\) In the last post, we fit a model with a single continuous predictor using the very non-default brms syntax bf(y ~ 1 + x, center = FALSE). We also had some difficulty settling on a sensible prior for the intercept in this context, given how all our predictor values were far above zero. In this post we’ll explore different ways to fit the model with a mean-centered predictor, what…