overall_uniform

specify overall uniform (symmetric Dirichlet distribution) for etiology prior

Provides functions to specify, fit and visualize
nested partially-latent class models (
Wu, Deloria-Knoll, Hammitt, and Zeger (2016) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12101>;
Wu, Deloria-Knoll, and Zeger (2017) <doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxw037>;
Wu and Chen (2021) <doi:10.1002/sim.8804>) for
inference of population disease etiology and individual diagnosis. In the motivating
Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study, because both quantities
of interest sum to one hundred percent, the PERCH scientists frequently refer to
them as population etiology pie and individual etiology pie, hence the name of the package.

Zhenke Wu

baker

"Nested Partially Latent Class Models"

Scott Zeger

John Muschelli

Irena Chen

overall_uniform function

<dl><dt>alpha</dt>
<dd>any positive number, usually 1.</dd>
<dt>cause_list</dt>
<dd>a list of latent status</dd></dl>

Arguments

specify overall uniform (symmetric Dirichlet distribution) for etiology prior — overall_uniform

<dl>

<dt>alpha</dt>
<dd>any positive number, usually 1.</dd>


<dt>cause_list</dt>
<dd>a list of latent status</dd>

</dl>

overall_uniform: specify overall uniform (symmetric Dirichlet distribution) for etiology prior

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