The rvsummary
class provides a means to store a concise
representation of the marginal posterior distributions of the vector
components. By default, the 201 quantiles
0, 0.005, 0.01,
0.015, ..., 0.990, 0.995, 1
are saved for each vector component in an
rvsummary
object.
is.rvsummary
tests whether the object is an rvsummary
object;
as.rvsummary
coerces a random vector object to a rvsummary
object.
as.data.frame
is another way to obtain the data frame that is
produced by the summary
method.
A data frame that has the format of an rv
summary can be coerced into
an rvsummary
; if quantiles are not specified within the data frame,
quantiles from the Normal distribution are filled in, if the mean and s.d.
are given.
Therefore, the following (generic) functions work with rvsummary
objects: rvmean
, rvsd
, rvvar
, rvquantile
,
rnsims
, sims
, and consequently any `rv-only' function that
depends only on these functions will work; e.g. is.constant
, which
depends only on rvnsims
.
The method is.double
is provided for compatibility reasons; this is
needed in a function called by plot.rvsummary
The arithmetic operators and mathematical functions will not work with
rvsummary
objects.
The sims
method returns the quantiles.