XDE (version 2.18.0)

seed: Seed for the MCMC

Description

Setting a seed is useful for reproducing MCMC chains

Usage

seed(object)
seed(object) <- value

Arguments

object

An object of XdeParameter or XdeMcmc

value

Numeric or integer

Value

An integer

Details

The seed stored in the slot of an object of class XdeParameter and an object of class XdeMcmc are useful in different ways. For the XdeParameter class, the seed indicates what seed was used to initialize an MCMC chain. By contrast, an object of class XdeMcmc contains a seed that would be useful for running additional iterations -- the seed here is guaranteed to be different from the seed that was used to initiate the MCMC.