f_multinomial: Specify a multinomial sampling distribution

View source: R/f_multinomial.R

f_multinomialR Documentation

Specify a multinomial sampling distribution

Description

This function can be used in the family argument of create_sampler or generate_data to specify a multinomial sampling distribution. This includes the special case of categorical (multinoulli) data.

Usage

f_multinomial(link = "logit", n.trial = NULL, K = NULL)

Arguments

link

the name of a link function. Currently the only allowed link function for the multinomial distribution is "logit".

n.trial

the number of multinomial trials. This can be specified either as a formula for a variable number of trials, or as a scalar value for a common number of trials for all units.

K

number of categories for multinomial model; only used for prior predictive sampling.

Value

A family object.


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