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Jouni Helske
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Academy Research Fellow at INVEST (University of Turku), PI of CAUSALTIME project and partner in PREDLIFE consortium. Bayesian statistics, causal inference, state space and hidden Markov models, and computational statistics in general.
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Technically I think it would be possible, and we actually entertained adding this possibility in github.com/ropensci/dyn..., but eventually decided not to implement this as the interpretation of the model and defining the reference level would be tricky in general. 1/

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But if you are working on software which allows constraints/priors on model parameters, you could use same predictors for each level but constraint some coefficients to zero. 2/

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Jouni Helske
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Academy Research Fellow at INVEST (University of Turku), PI of CAUSALTIME project and partner in PREDLIFE consortium. Bayesian statistics, causal inference, state space and hidden Markov models, and computational statistics in general.
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