PriorDistribution {ceg}

PriorDistribution

Description

PriorDistribution initialises the prior distributions under the conservative and uniform assumptions for the hyperparameter 'alpha' over the event tree.

Usage

PriorDistribution(stratified.event.tree, alpha)

Arguments

stratified.event.tree

"Stratified.event.tree" a S4 object that represents an event tree.

alpha

numeric It plays a role of a phantom sample to construct the prior probability distribution and reprssents the prior knowledge about the process.

Value

prior is a list of matrices. Each matrix is a collection of vectors that correspond to a prior for each situation associated with a particular variable.

See Also

PriorVariable