plot.history: Trace of a scalar variable

In BRugs: Interface to the 'OpenBUGS' MCMC Software

Trace of a scalar variable

Description

This function returns and plots a complete trace for a scalar variable.

Usage

plotHistory(node, plot = TRUE, 
    colour = c("red", "blue", "green", "yellow", "black"), 
    main = NULL, xlab = "iteration", ylab = "", ...)

Arguments

node	Character, name of a scalar variable in the model.
plot	Logical, whether to plot the trace or only return the values. If TRUE, values are returned invisibly.
colour	Colours used to represent different chains.
main, xlab, ylab	graphical parameters, see plot.default
...	Further graphical parameters as in par.

Details

Acts on a scalar variable. See the wrapper function samplesHistory for more details.

Value

A matrix containing samples of node, each row corresponds to one chain.

See Also

samplesHistory, BRugs, help.WinBUGS

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