• Penalising Model Component Complexity: A Principled, Practical Approach to Constructing Priors 

      Simpson, Daniel; Rue, Håvard; Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg; Martins, Thiago Guerrera; Sørbye, Sigrunn Holbek (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this paper, we introduce a new concept for constructing prior distributions. We exploit the natural nested structure inherent to many model components, which defines the model component to be a flexible extension of a ...
    • You Just Keep on Pushing My Love over the Borderline: A Rejoinder 

      Simpson, Daniel; Rue, Håvard; Riebler, Andrea Ingeborg; Martins, Thiago Guerrera; Sørbye, Sigrunn Holbek (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The entire reason that we wrote this paper was to provide a concrete object around which to focus a broader discussion about prior choice and we are extremely grateful to the editorial team at Statistical Science for this ...