link.up.posteriors {BEDASSLE}R Documentation

Links up multiple MCMC output objects

Description

Creates a single MCMC output object that links together the output from 2 different runs. To be used when analyses are run serially on a single dataset, with subsequent runs initiated at the parameter values estimated in the last generation of the previous MCMC run.

Usage

link.up.posteriors(MCMC.output1, MCMC.output2, linked.up.output.file.name)

Arguments

MCMC.output1

The first (chronologically) MCMC output to be incorporated into the linked-up output object.

MCMC.output2

The second (chronologically) MCMC output to be incorporated into the linked-up output object.

linked.up.output.file.name

The linked-up MCMC object file name. The suffix ".Robj" will be appended to the user-specified name.

Details

Acceptance rates are re-calculated to be consistent across the new, larger MCMC object. The function is also flexible with respect to the model parameterization (e.g. - it will recognize, for example, whether users have specified the standard or beta-binomial models, or whether users have specified one, or more than one, alphaE parameters).

Author(s)

Gideon Bradburd


[Package BEDASSLE version 1.6.1 Index]