mcmc_Rhat {sirt}

Computation of the Rhat Statistic from a Single MCMC Chain

Description

Computes the Rhat statistic from a single MCMC chain.

Usage

mcmc_Rhat(mcmc_object, n_splits=3)

Arguments

mcmc_object

Object of class mcmc

n_splits

Number of splits for MCMC chain

Value

Numeric vector

Examples

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# EXAMPLE 1: Computation Rhat statistic for 2PNO model fitting by MCMC
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data(data.read)

# estimate 2PNO with MCMC with 3000 iterations and 500 burn-in iterations
mod <- sirt::mcmc.2pno( dat=data.read, iter=1000, burnin=100 )
# plot MCMC chains
plot( mod$mcmcobj, ask=TRUE )
# compute Rhat statistics
round( sirt::mcmc_Rhat( mod$mcmcobj[[1]] ), 3 )

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