Someone sent me a question regarding the inverse-Wishart prior distribution for covariance matrix, as it is the default in some software he was using. Inverse-Wishart does not make sense for prior distribution; it has problems because the shape and scale are tangled. See this paper, “Visualizing Distributions of Covariance Matrices,” by Tomoki Tokuda, Ben Goodrich, […]
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