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growthrate (version 1.3)

priormeanobs: prior mean

Description

Internal function. Finds the sample mean of the n-vector y for use in specifying the prior mean ${\boldsymbol\mu}_0$; see Section 2 of the referenced article for further details.

Usage

priormeanobs(YI, tobs)

Arguments

YI
The N times (n-1) matrix with rows being the values of $y_i, i=1\ldots, n-1$ for the N subjects
tobs
Row vector of n observation times (in increasing order, same for each subject).