get.covariate.array: Get the covariate arrays

In cthmm: Latent Continuous Time Markov Chains

Description

Creates matrices with covariate values for all subjects for use in parameterized rate, initial dist., and emission matrices.

Usage

  get.covariate.array(design.matrix, cov.data,
    variable.entries = NULL)

Arguments

design.matrix	a matrix that codes the constants and variables for the parameterization with rows corresponding to theta and columns corresponding to betas
cov.data	a data frame with baseline covariate data for each individual
variable.entries	matrix with rows for each parameter corresponding to variable covariates, with the names for each.

Value

an array (dim=c(num.betas,num.thetas, num.subjects)) with covariates values for all subjects

Author(s)

Jane Lange

cthmm documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:46 p.m.