Summary method for emc.prior objects

Prints a summary of the prior specification, including descriptions of the prior types and their associated hyperparameters.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'emc.prior'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class 'emc.prior' containing prior specifications

...

Additional arguments passed to other methods (not currently used)

Value

Invisibly returns NULL. Called for its side effect of printing the summary.

See also

prior for creating prior objects

Examples

# Take a prior object
prior <- get_prior(samples_LNR)
summary(prior)
#> mu  -  Group-level mean 
#> 
#> mean of the group-level mean prior : 
#>     m m_lMd     s    t0 
#>     0     0     0     0 
#> variance of the group-level mean prior : 
#>       m m_lMd s t0
#> m     1     0 0  0
#> m_lMd 0     1 0  0
#> s     0     0 1  0
#> t0    0     0 0  1
#> 
#> Sigma  -  Group-level covariance matrix 
#> 
#> degrees of freedom on the group-level (co-)variance prior, 2 leads to uniform correlations. Single value : 
#> [1] 2
#> scale on the group-level variance prior, larger values lead to larger variances : 
#>     m m_lMd     s    t0 
#>   0.3   0.3   0.3   0.3 
#>