rv (version 0.949)

rvinci: Is a value inside a confidence interval?

Description

rvinci returns TRUE iff a given value is inside a given interval.

Usage

rvinci(obj, x, interval=0.95, one.sided=FALSE, left=FALSE)

Arguments

obj

a random variable.

x

a numeric object.

interval

a number between 0 and 1.

one.sided

logical. Is the interval one-sided?

left

logical. Is the one-sided interval on the left?

Value

• A logical vector.

Details

Returns TRUE if x (a number) is in the 100*interval% interval of the random variable obj.

References

Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical report, Columbia University, New York.

Examples

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