getInitialPosition: Get an eligible initial value for a MTN with given mean and...

In hdtg: Generate Samples from Multivariate Truncated Normal Distributions

Get an eligible initial value for a MTN with given mean and truncations

Description

For a given MTN the function returns an initial vector whose elements are one of: (1) middle point of the truncation interval if both lower and upper bounds are finite (2) lower (upper) bound +0.1 (-0.1) if only the lower (upper) bound is finite (3) the corresponding mean value if lower bound = -Inf are upper bound = Inf.

Usage

getInitialPosition(mean, lowerBounds, upperBounds)

Arguments

mean	a d-dimensional mean vector.
lowerBounds	a d-dimensional vector specifying the lower bounds.
upperBounds	a d-dimensional vector specifying the lower bounds.

Value

an eligible d-dimensional initial vector.

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