st function

Constructor function for Student-t priors

Used to specify student-t priors for bayesGAM models

st(param_values)

Arguments

• param_values: Numeric vector of length 3 for the degrees of freedom, location, and scale parameter.

Details

For the beta and a parameters, the distribution is assumed to be unconstrained. For eps and lambda, the priors are half-normal with a support of strictly positive numbers.

Examples

require(stats); require(graphics)
st(c(3,0,1))

References

Stan Development Team. 2018. Stan Modeling Language Users Guide and Reference Manual, Version 2.18.0