particles-mif: Generate particles from the user-specified distribution.
Description
Generate particles from the user-specified distribution.
This is part of the low-level interface, used by mif.
This help page does not give instruction on how to write a valid particles function:
see the documentation for mif instead.Usage
particles(object, ...)
## S3 method for class 'mif':
particles(object, Np = 1, center = coef(object), sd = 0, ...)
Value
particles returns a list of two matrices. states
contains the state-variable portion of the particles; params
contains the parameter portion. Each has Np columns.
Details
The particles method is used to set up the initial distribution
of particles. It is an interface to the user-specifed
particles slot in the mif object.