Tim Disher

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icon company EVERSANA icon location Halifax, NS icon location Tim is a registered nurse (RN) with Vanier CGS funded doctoral training in advanced synthesis and medical decision at the Dalhousie University School of Nursing

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Convergence diagnostics?

Thank you, this is very helpful. Do I understand correctly that you're suggesting in the case of a straight predictive model, it make sense to just assess the convergence of...

Predicting new groups in dbart_vi?

Great! Will test it in my application as soon as you do

Marginal effects in an external target population

Amazing thank you for the quick reply and apologies for missing the demo. > For a survival outcome, you also need a distribution for the baseline hazard in the target...

DIC/LOO bad pareto k and general interpretation

Brought this for discussion in the Stan forums and had a good exchange with Aki [here](https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/loo-in-meta-analysis-with-mixed-aggregate-and-individual-data/40363/). Overall it seems they are estimating different types of leave one out error, but...