PriorDistribution: PriorDistribution

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also

Description

PriorDistribution initialises the prior distributions under the conservative and uniform assumptions for the hyperparameter 'alpha' over the event tree.

Usage

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PriorDistribution(stratified.event.tree, alpha)

Arguments

stratified.event.tree

"Stratified.event.tree" a S4 object that represents an event tree.

alpha

numeric It plays a role of a phantom sample to construct the prior probability distribution and reprssents the prior knowledge about the process.

Value

prior is a list of matrices. Each matrix is a collection of vectors that correspond to a prior for each situation associated with a particular variable.

See Also

PriorVariable


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