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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2014 Feb;61(2):547–556. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2283597

TABLE II.

Conjugate Prior Distributions

Model Parameter	Distribution Family	Hyperparameters
k	Uniform	~ U (1, n)
β₁, β₂	Normal	$~ N ({\overset{‒}{β}}_{1}, {\overset{‒}{Λ}}_{1}^{- 1}), ~ N ({\overset{‒}{β}}_{2}, {\overset{‒}{Λ}}_{2}^{- 1})$
$σ_{1}^{2}, σ_{2}^{2}$	Inverse Gamma	~ IG(a₀ ,b₀) , ~ IG(a₀ ,b₀)
s	Normal	$~ N (μ_{s_{p}}, σ_{s_{p}}^{2})$