priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R

priorsense: Efficient prior and likelihood sensitivity checks for Bayesian models in R - Published in JOSS (2026)
https://github.com/n-kall/priorsense

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bayes bayesian bayesian-data-analysis bayesian-methods prior-distribution r r-package sensitivity-analysis stan

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priorsense: an R package for prior diagnostics and sensitivity

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/n-kall/priorsense
Owner: n-kall
License: gpl-3.0
Created: 2021-07-07T12:25:06.000Z (about 5 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2026-07-24T10:01:16.000Z (17 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-24T11:10:20.103Z (17 days ago)
Topics: bayes, bayesian, bayesian-data-analysis, bayesian-methods, prior-distribution, r, r-package, sensitivity-analysis, stan
Language: R
Homepage: https://n-kall.github.io/priorsense/
Size: 16.1 MB
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Open Issues: 3
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- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Codemeta: codemeta.json

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Total packages: 2
Total downloads:
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Total dependent packages: 0 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 0 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 9
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cran.r-project.org: priorsense

Prior Diagnostics and Sensitivity Analysis

Homepage: https://github.com/n-kall/priorsense
Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/priorsense/priorsense.pdf
Licenses: GPL (≥ 3)
Latest release: 1.2.0 (published 10 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-07-13T15:52:14.982Z (28 days ago)
Versions: 8
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 3,514 Last month
Rankings:
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- Dependent repos count: 35.352%
- Average: 50.117%
- Downloads: 86.303%
Maintainers (1)
- noa.kallioinen@aalto.fi

guix: r-priorsense

Prior diagnostics and sensitivity analysis

Homepage: https://github.com/n-kall/priorsense
Documentation: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/cran.scm#n16920
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Latest release: 1.2.0 (published 5 months ago)
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