posterior_epred {rstantools}

Generic function for accessing the posterior distribution of the conditional expectation

Description

Extract the posterior draws of the conditional expectation. See the rstanarm package for an example.

Usage

posterior_epred(object, ...)

Arguments

object

The object to use.

...

Arguments passed to methods. See the methods in the rstanarm package for examples.

Value

posterior_epred() methods should return a D by N matrix, where D is the number of draws from the posterior distribution distribution and N is the number of data points.

See Also

• The rstanarm package (mc-stan.org/rstanarm) for example methods (CRAN, GitHub).

• Guidelines and recommendations for developers of R packages interfacing with Stan and a demonstration getting a simple package working can be found in the vignettes included with rstantools and at mc-stan.org/rstantools/articles.