normpostpred {LearnBayes} | R Documentation |
Given simulated draws from the posterior from a normal sampling model, outputs simulated draws from the posterior predictive distribution of a statistic of interest.
normpostpred(parameters,sample.size,f=min)
parameters |
list of simulated draws from the posterior where mu contains the normal mean and sigma2 contains the normal variance |
sample.size |
size of sample of future sample |
f |
function defining the statistic |
simulated sample of the posterior predictive distribution of the statistic
Jim Albert
# finds posterior predictive distribution of the min statistic of a future sample of size 15
data(darwin)
s=normpostsim(darwin$difference)
sample.size=15
sim.stats=normpostpred(s,sample.size,min)