## Calculate a credible interval from a numerically specified posterior CDF

### Description

Calculates a lower, upper, or two-sided credible interval from the numerical posterior CDF.

### Usage

credIntNum(theta, cdf, conf = 0.95, type="twosided")


### Arguments

 theta the values over which the the posterior CDF is specified cdf the values of the CDF, F(θ) = \int_{-∞}^{θ}f(t).df where f(t) is the PDF. conf the desired 'confidence' level type the type of interval to return, 'lower' = one sided lower bound, 'two-sided' = two - sided, or 'upper' = one sided upper bound. It is sufficient to use 'l','t' or 'u'

### Details

This function uses linear interpolation to calculate bounds for points that may not be specified by CDF

### Value

a list containing the elements lower.bound, uppper.bound or both depending on type

### Examples

## commands for calculating a numerical posterior CDF.
## In this example, the likelihood is proportional to
## \eqn{\theta^{3/2}\times \exp(-\theta/4)} and a N(6, 9) prior is used.
theta <- seq(from = 0.001, to = 40, by = 0.001)
prior <- dnorm(theta,6,3)
ppnLike <- theta^1.5*exp(-theta/4)
ppnPost <- prior*ppnLike
scaleFactor <- sintegral(theta, ppnPost)$int posterior <- ppnPost/scaleFactor cdf <- sintegral(theta, posterior)$y
ci<-credIntNum(theta, cdf)
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(prior ~ theta, type = 'l',  main = "Prior N(6, 9)")
plot(ppnLike ~ theta, type = 'l', main = "Proportional likelihood")
plot(posterior ~ theta, type = 'l', main = "Posterior")
abline(v=c(unlist(ci)))