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BaM (version 0.93)

norm.known.var: norm.known.var

Description

A function to calculate posterior quanties for a normal-normal model with known variance (pages 74-77). It produces the posterior mean, variance, and 95% credible interval for user-specified prior.

Usage

n.post1(data.vec,pop.var,prior.mean,prior.var)

Arguments

data.vec
a vector of assumed normally distributed data
pop.var
known population variance
prior.mean
mean of specified prior distribution for mu
prior.var
variance of specified prior distribution for mu