mean.prior: Prior mean

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Prior mean

Description

Computes mean of a prior distribution. (In case of orthonormal prior distributions for factors, the mean of for the deviations from intercept is returned.)

Usage

## S3 method for class 'prior'
mean(x, ...)

Arguments

x	a prior
...	unused

Value

a mean of an object of class 'prior'.

See Also

prior()

Examples

# create a standard normal prior distribution
p1 <- prior(distribution = "normal", parameters = list(mean = 1, sd = 1))

# compute mean of the prior distribution
mean(p1)

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