Initializes parameters to be used in the approximate method
algorithm.
Usage
initialize(y, ncores)
Value
ES
Expectation of covariance matrices ( diagonal scaled to 1) of the
Gaussian copula graphical model.
Z
New transformation of the data based on given or default
Sigma.
lower_upper
Lower and upper truncation points for the truncated normal
distribution.
Arguments
y
Data.
ncores
Number of cores to be used during parallel computing.
Author
Sjoerd Hermes, Joost van Heerwaarden and Pariya Behrouzi
Maintainer: Sjoerd Hermes sjoerd.hermes@wur.nl
References
1. Hermes, S., van Heerwaarden, J., & Behrouzi, P. (2024).
Copula graphical models for heterogeneous mixed data.
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 1-15.