print.ebsummary: Print Method for EpiBayes Historical Object

In EpiBayes: Implements Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Epidemiological Applications

Description

This function prints the output of objects of class ebhistoricalsummary from the method summary.ebhistorical in a nice form.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ebsummary'
print(x, ...)

Arguments

x	An object of class ebsummary (e.g., the output of function summary.eb).
...	Additional arguments to be passed on to print.

Value

The summary statistics are returned in a list with the first entry containing the simulation output (p2.tilde, p4.tilde, and p6.tilde), the next containing summary measures for the first ten replicated data sets' gam, and the rest containing summary measures for the first ten replicated data sets' tau values (one for each subzone, if applicable). The summary measurements taken on the posterior distributions include the posterior mean, standard deviation, standard error of the mean, time-series adjusted standard error of the mean, and the lower and upper HPD interval limits, in that order. For reference purposes, below are the descriptions for the summarized variables.

Output	Description
p2.tilde	Proportion of simulated data sets that result in the probability of poi prevalence below poi.thresh with probability p1
p4.tilde	Proportion of simulated data sets that result in the probability of poi prevalence above poi.thresh with probability p1
p6.tilde	Proportion of simulated data sets that result in the probability of poi prevalence between poi.lb and poi.ub with probability p1
taumat	Posterior distributions of the cluster-level prevalence for all simulated data sets (i.e., reps)
gammat	Posterior distribution of the subzone-level prevalence (3-level) OR Posterior distribution of the probability of the disease being in the region (2-level)

Here, poi refers to the p(arameter) o(f) i(nterest) and is chosen by the user to be either gam or tau. By default, it is chosen to be the cluster- level prevalence, tau.

See Also

This is a method for objects of class ebsummary returned by the method summary.eb, which creates its own class of object much like the summary method for lm objects.

EpiBayes documentation built on May 30, 2017, 4:01 a.m.