Posterior Distribution

Many of the MML Regression-based procedures offer the post-hoc option of generating variables containing the posterior mean, variance, and standard error of the posterior mean. To accomplish this, right click on a icon for the completed run in the Completed Run Queue. If "posteriors" appears on an option, select it. It will automatically add these three variables to the data set. The output device (e.g., the browser) will contain a small table telling you the names of the variables created.

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