testBUGSmodel: Tests BUGS examples in the NIMBLE system

In thirdwing/nimble: Flexible BUGS-compatible system for hierarchical statistical modeling and algorithm development

Description

testBUGSmodel builds a BUGS model in the NIMBLE system and simulates from the model, comparing the values of the nodes and their log probabilities in the uncompiled and compiled versions of the model

Usage

testBUGSmodel(example = NULL, dir = NULL, model = NULL, data = NULL,
  inits = NULL, useInits = TRUE, debug = FALSE)

Arguments

example	(optional) example character vector indicating name of BUGS example to test; can be null if model is provided
dir	(optional) character vector indicating directory in which files are contained, by default the classic-bugs directory if the installed package is used; to use the current working directory, set this to ""
model	(optional) one of (1) a character string giving the file name containing the BUGS model code, (2) an R function whose body is the BUGS model code, or (3) the output of nimbleCode. If a file name, the file can contain a 'var' block and 'data' block in the manner of the JAGS versions of the BUGS examples but should not contain references to other input data files nor a const block. The '.bug' or '.txt' extension can be excluded.
data	(optional) one of (1) character string giving the file name for an R file providing the input constants and data as R code [assigning individual objects or as a named list] or (2) a named list providing the input constants and data. If neither is provided, the function will look for a file named example-data including extensions .R, .r, or .txt.
inits	(optional) (1) character string giving the file name for an R file providing the initial values for parameters as R code [assigning individual objects or as a named list] or (2) a named list providing the values. If neither is provided, the function will look for a file named example-init or example-inits including extensions .R, .r, or .txt.
withInits	boolean indicating whether to test model with initial values provided via inits

Details

Note that testing without initial values may cause warnings when parameters are sampled from improper or fat-tailed distributions

Author(s)

Christopher Paciorek

Examples

testBUGSmodel('pump')

thirdwing/nimble documentation built on May 31, 2019, 10:41 a.m.