var.prior {BayesTools}

Prior var

Description

Computes variance of a prior distribution.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'prior'
var(x, ...)

Arguments

x

a prior

...

unused arguments

Value

a variance of an object of class 'prior'.

See Also

prior()

Examples

# create a standard normal prior distribution
p1 <- prior(distribution = "normal", parameters = list(mean = 1, sd = 1))

# compute variance of the prior distribution
var(p1)