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Full conditional distibution for precision parameters

The full conditional distribution for Gibbs sampling from the precision parameters $ \frac{1}{\sigma^2}$ in both models is

$\displaystyle \mathcal{P}(\frac{1}{\sigma^2}\vert\vec{Y},\Omega_{-})=\Gamma(a+\frac{n}{2},b+\frac{1}{2}\sum_{i=1}^n(Y_i-\mu_i)^2),$ (23)

where, $ \vec{Y}$ is the data, $ \Omega_{-}$ is the set of all parameters except $ \sigma$, $ n$ is the number of acquisitions, $ Y_i$ is the value of the data at the $ i^{th}$ acquisition, $ a$ and $ b$ are the parameters in the Gamma prior on the precision, and $ \mu_i$ is the value for the $ i^{th}$ acquisition predicted by the model. $ \mu_i$, for the diffusion tensor model is given by equation 10, and for the simple partial volume model, by equation 12.

Tim Behrens 2004-01-22