summary.chain: Basic summary of a chain object.

In grady/evol-mc: Evolutionary MC Project

Description

Finds mean, sd, and the q-th quantiles of the chain, optionally discarding a portion of the beginning of the chain. Each element in the list of chain states should be a matrix with variables to be summarized in columns. If there are multiple individual chains in the rows they will be all contribute to the summary statistics.

Usage

  ## S3 method for class 'chain'
 summary(object, discard = 0.1,
    q = c(0.025, 0.975), ...)

Arguments

object	object to be summarized.
discard	If >=1, remove that many elements from start of chain before summarizing. If <1.0, removes that fraction from the chain. Default is 10%.
q	quantiles to find.
...	unused.
chain	list of states to be summarized.

Value

matrix of summary statistics.

Author(s)

Grady Weyenberg

grady/evol-mc documentation built on May 17, 2019, 8:01 a.m.