We do the model comparison using the the loo package (9, 10) for leave-one-out cross validation. For an alternate approach using the WAIC criteria (11) I suggest you read this post also published by TDS Editors.
loo(Ordinal_Fit, Ordinal_Fit2)
Under this scheme, the models have very similar performance. In actual fact, the primary model is barely higher for out-of-sample predictions. Accounting for variance didn’t help much on this particular case, where (perhaps) counting on informative priors can unlock the subsequent step of scientific inference.
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