eggCounts (version 0.4-1)

MHstep: Do a Metropolis-Hastings step

Description

Do a Metropolis-Hastings step

Usage

MHstep(old, rprop, dprop, logUpost, ...)

Arguments

old

current state of the chain

rprop

a random number generating function with arguments n=number of random variables, ... extra-arguments

dprop

the corresponding density function with argument x, and the same ... arguments

logUpost

function evaluating the log unnormalized marginal posterior

...

extra arguments for the proposal density and random number generator

Value

• new state of the chain with a boolean indicating acceptance as attribute