npars.term: Number of Parameters

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Number of Parameters

Description

Gets the number of parameters of an object.

The default methods returns the length of pars() if none are NA, otherwise it returns NA.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'term'
npars(x, scalar = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	An object.
scalar	A flag specifying whether to by default return all parameters (NULL), or only scalar parameters (TRUE) or only non-scalar parameters (FALSE).
...	Other arguments passed to methods.

Value

An integer scalar of the number of parameters.

See Also

pars()

Other MCMC dimensions: nchains(), niters(), nsams(), nsims(), nterms()

Other parameters: pars(), set_pars()

Examples

npars(term("sigma", "alpha[1]", "alpha[2]", "beta[1,1]", "beta[2,1]"))

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