ctDiscretePars: ctDiscretePars

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ctDiscretePars

Description

Calculate model implied regressions for a sequence of time intervals (if ct) or steps (if dt) based on a ctStanFit object, for specified subjects. Wrap with print() when used inside for loops!

Usage

ctDiscretePars(
  fit,
  subjects = "popmean",
  times = seq(from = 0, to = 10, by = 0.1),
  nsamples = 200,
  observational = FALSE,
  standardise = FALSE,
  cov = FALSE,
  plot = FALSE,
  cores = 2,
  ...,
  ctstanfitobj
)

ctStanDiscretePars(
  fit,
  subjects = "popmean",
  times = seq(from = 0, to = 10, by = 0.1),
  nsamples = 200,
  observational = FALSE,
  standardise = FALSE,
  cov = FALSE,
  plot = FALSE,
  cores = 2,
  ...,
  ctstanfitobj
)

Arguments

fit	model fit from ctFit
subjects	Either 'popmean', to use the population mean parameter, or a vector of integers denoting which subjects.
times	Numeric vector of positive values, discrete time parameters will be calculated for each. If the fit object is a discrete time model, these should be positive integers.
nsamples	Number of samples from the stanfit to use for plotting. Higher values will increase smoothness / accuracy, at cost of plotting speed. Values greater than the total number of samples will be set to total samples.
observational	Logical. If TRUE, outputs expected change in processes *conditional on observing* a 1 unit change in each – this change is correlated according to the DIFFUSION matrix. If FALSE, outputs expected regression values – also interpretable as an independent 1 unit change on each process, giving the expected response under a 1 unit experimental impulse.
standardise	Logical. If TRUE, output is standardised according to expected total within subject variance, given by the asymDIFFUSIONcov matrix.
cov	Logical. If TRUE, covariances are returned instead of regression coefficients.
plot	Logical. If TRUE, ggplots output using ctDiscreteParsPlot instead of returning output.
cores	Number of cpu cores to use for computing subject matrices. If subject matrices were saved during fiting, not used.
...	additional plotting arguments to control ctDiscreteParsPlot
ctstanfitobj	Deprecated. Use fit.

Details

If plot=TRUE, the function will return a ggplot2 object (and hence needs to be printed if intended to display within a loop). This can be modified by the various ggplot2 functions, or displayed using print(x).

Examples

data.table::setDTthreads(1) #ignore this line
ctDiscretePars(ctstantestfit,times=seq(.5,4,.1),
 plot=TRUE,indices='CR')

#modify plot
require(ggplot2)
g=ctDiscretePars(ctstantestfit,times=seq(.5,4,.1),
 plot=TRUE,indices='CR')
g= g+ labs(title='Cross effects')
print(g)

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