gauss_bugs function

Bugs code for Gaussian response

Bugs model for a normal distributed response variable $X \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu,\,\sigma^{2})$.

gauss_bugs(nodename, nodesintercept, parentnames, parentcoefs, std)

gauss_bugsGroup(
  nodename,
  nodesintercept,
  parentnames,
  parentcoefs,
  sigma,
  sigma_alpha
)

Arguments

• nodename: character string of response variable name.
• nodesintercept: overall mean of response. Parameter from fixed-effects intercept.
• parentnames: single character string (for one parent) or vector of characters (for multiple parent nodes) with parent node (predictor variables) names.
• parentcoefs: overall slope for each predictor (parent node) variable (fixed-effects).
• std: integer with standard deviation of response variable that will be converted to precision (see Details).
• sigma: within-group variance. Parameter from random-effects residual.
• sigma_alpha: between-group variance. Parameter from random-effects intercept.

Returns

Bugs model returned as stdout.

Details

The variance of the normal distribution is $\frac{1}{\tau}$.

Functions

• gauss_bugsGroup(): Bugs code for Gaussian response with varying intercept

Examples

gauss_bugs(nodename = "a",
           parentnames = c("b", "c"),
           nodesintercept = c(0.318077),
           parentcoefs = list("b"=c(b=0.3059395),
                              "c"=c(c=0.5555)),
           std = c(0.05773503))

See Also

makebugs simulateAbn