summarizeChain

Utility function to summarize MCMC samples (posterior mean, median, HDI, std, etc.)

Routines for combining causal effect estimates and study diagnostics across multiple data sites in a distributed study, without sharing patient-level data.
Allows for normal and non-normal approximations of the data-site likelihood of the effect parameter.

Martijn Schuemie

EvidenceSynthesis

Synthesizing Causal Evidence in a Distributed Research Network

Marc A. Suchard

Fan Bu

Observational Health Data Science and Informatics 

summarizeChain function

<dl><dt>chain</dt>
<dd>A vector of posterior samples from MCMC.</dd>
<dt>alpha</dt>
<dd>Alpha level for the credible interval.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Utility function to summarize MCMC samples (posterior mean, median, HDI, std, etc.) — summarizeChain

<dl>

<dt>chain</dt>
<dd>A vector of posterior samples from MCMC.</dd>


<dt>alpha</dt>
<dd>Alpha level for the credible interval.</dd>

</dl>

summarizeChain: Utility function to summarize MCMC samples (posterior mean, median, HDI, std, etc.)

Description

Usage

Arguments