growth.prior.uniform: Growth Priors
In AustralianAntarcticDataCentre/datemoss: Chronologies and Growth Rates of Moss

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Priors for growth rates.

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growth.prior.uniform(max.growth)

growth.prior.gamma(mean, sd, shape = (mean/sd)^2, rate = mean/sd^2)

`max.growth`	the maximum possible growth rate
`mean`	the mean of the Gamma prior for growth
`sd`	the standard deviation of the Gamma prior for growth
`shape`	the shape parameter of the Gamma prior for growth
`rate`	the rate parameter of the Gamma prior for growth

These functions construct functions to evaluate the contribution to the log prior from each segment, for use with metropolisDate.

The growth.prior.uniform creates a uniform prior that assumes growth rates are uniform up to a user specified maximum rate.

The growth.prior.gamma creates a Gamma prior for grwoth rates. The user can specify the either the parameters of the distribution as either the prior mean and standard deviation or the prior shape and rate of the Gamma distribution.

function to evaluate the contribution to the log prior from each segment.

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