set_prior: Set prior

In jwdink/survbayes: Tools for bayesian survival-regression, with Stan and MAP

Description

Set prior

Usage

set_prior(parameter = NULL, terms, family = NULL, location = NULL,
  spread = NULL, fixed = NULL)

Arguments

parameter	The parameter
terms	The terms. Can be a character vector, or the result of dplyr::vars, which can be convenient for setting the prior on all but some terms.
family	The family for the prior distribution
location	A value for location on the distribution.
spread	A value for the spread (scale) on the distribution
fixed	In the fitting process, should this parameter be fixed at its prior value, or updated?

Value

An object of class 'prior', to be (optionally inserted into a list with other priors and) passed to 'priors' arg in 'survreg_map'

jwdink/survbayes documentation built on May 4, 2019, 4:23 p.m.