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# Part of the rstanarm package for estimating model parameters
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#' The \code{QR} argument
#'
#' Details about the \code{QR} argument to \pkg{rstanarm}'s modeling
#' functions.
#'
#' @name QR-argument
#' @template reference-stan-manual
#'
#' @details The \code{QR} argument is a logical scalar defaulting to
#' \code{FALSE}, but if \code{TRUE} applies a scaled \code{\link{qr}}
#' decomposition to the design matrix, \eqn{X = Q^\ast R^\ast}{X = Q* R*}.
#' If \code{autoscale = TRUE} (the default)
#' in the call to the function passed to the \code{prior} argument, then
#' \eqn{Q^\ast = Q \sqrt{n-1}}{Q* = Q (n-1)^0.5} and
#' \eqn{R^\ast = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n-1}} R}{R* = (n-1)^(-0.5) R}. When
#' \code{autoscale = FALSE}, \eqn{R} is scaled such that the lower-right
#' element of \eqn{R^\ast}{R*} is \eqn{1}.
#'
#' The coefficients relative to \eqn{Q^\ast}{Q*} are obtained and then
#' premultiplied by the inverse of \eqn{R^{\ast}}{R*} to obtain coefficients
#' relative to the original predictors, \eqn{X}. Thus, when
#' \code{autoscale = FALSE}, the coefficient on the last column of \eqn{X}
#' is the same as the coefficient on the last column of \eqn{Q^\ast}{Q*}.
#'
#' These transformations do not change the likelihood of the data but are
#' recommended for computational reasons when there are multiple predictors.
#' Importantly, while the columns of \eqn{X} are almost generally correlated,
#' the columns of \eqn{Q^\ast}{Q*} are uncorrelated by design, which often makes
#' sampling from the posterior easier. However, because when \code{QR} is
#' \code{TRUE} the \code{prior} argument applies to the coefficients relative to
#' \eqn{Q^\ast}{Q*} (and those are not very interpretable), setting \code{QR=TRUE}
#' is only recommended if you do not have an informative prior for the regression
#' coefficients or if the only informative prior is on the last regression
#' coefficient (in which case you should set \code{autoscale = FALSE} when
#' specifying such priors).
#'
#' For more details see the Stan case study
#' \emph{The QR Decomposition For Regression Models} at
#' \url{https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/qr_regression.html}.
#'
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