Dear Palang,
If you plan to build a covariate model for a parameter, it must mean that
you have reasonable information about this parameter in a rather large
sample of patients. It doesn't sound that you like a prior for this
parameter - there should be enough info in the data you have available.
Dear Palang and Martin,
For the published analysis; do you have any information on the covariates that
you would like to investigate? (mean and sd or range). Another factor weighting
in the approach you take may be what functional form(s) you consider for
continuous covariates (e.g. Linear vs.
