posterior_predict {rstantools}

Generic function for drawing from the posterior predictive distribution

Description

Draw from the posterior predictive distribution of the outcome. See posterior_predict.stanreg() in the rstanarm package for an example.

Usage

posterior_predict(object, ...)

Arguments

object

The object to use.

...

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

Value

posterior_predict() methods should return a D by N matrix, where D is the number of draws from the posterior predictive distribution and N is the number of data points being predicted per draw.

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.

Examples

# See help("posterior_predict", package = "rstanarm")