condMom: Computes Conditional Mean/Var of One Element of MVN given All...

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Computes Conditional Mean/Var of One Element of MVN given All Others

Description

condMom compute moments of conditional distribution of the ith element of a multivariate normal given all others.

Usage

condMom(x, mu, sigi, i)

Arguments

x	vector of values to condition on; ith element not used
mu	mean vector with length(x) = n
sigi	inverse of covariance matrix; dimension n x n
i	conditional distribution of ith element

Details

x \sim MVN(mu, sigi^{-1}).

condMom computes moments of x_i given x_{-i}.

Value

A list containing:

cmean	conditional mean
cvar	conditional variance

Warning

This routine is a utility routine that does not check the input arguments for proper dimensions and type.

Author(s)

Peter Rossi, Anderson School, UCLA, [e-mail].

References

For further discussion, see Bayesian Statistics and Marketing by Rossi, Allenby, and McCulloch.

Examples

sig  = matrix(c(1, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1), ncol=3)
sigi = chol2inv(chol(sig))
mu   = c(1,2,3)
x    = c(1,1,1)

condMom(x, mu, sigi, 2)

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