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rvec (version 0.0.7)

rvec-package: Package 'rvec'

Description

Tools for working with random draws from a distribution, eg draws from a posterior distribution in a Bayesian analysis.

Arguments

Functions

Creating rvecs

  • rvec() Class depends on input

  • rvec_dbl() Doubles

  • rvec_int() Integers

  • rvec_lgl() Logical

  • rvec_chr() Character

  • collapse_to_rvec() Data in data frame

  • new_rvec() Blanks

Manipulating rvecs

  • if_else_rvec() if_else() where condition is rvec

  • map_rvec() map() for rvecs

  • extract_draw() Single draw from rvec

Probability distributions

  • dbeta_rvec() Beta

  • dbinom_rvec() Binomial

  • dcauchy_rvec() Cauchy

  • dchisq_rvec() Chi-square

  • dexp_rvec() Exponential

  • df_rvec() F

  • dgamma_rvec() Gamma

  • dgeom_rvec() Geometric

  • dhyper_rvec() Hypergeometric

  • dlnorm_rvec() Lognormal

  • dmultinom() Multinomial

  • dnbinom_rvec() Negative binomial

  • dnorm_rvec() Normal

  • dpois_rvec() Poisson

  • dt_rvec() Student's T

  • dunif_rvec() Uniform

  • dweibull_rvec() Weibull

Summarizing across draws

  • draws_all() All draws

  • draws_any() Any draws

  • draws_min() Minimum draw

  • draws_max() Maximum draw

  • draws_median() Median draw

  • draws_mean() Mean draw

  • draws_mode() Modal draw

  • draws_ci() Credible intervals

  • draws_quantile() Quantiles

  • draws_fun() Arbitrary function

  • n_draw() Number of draws

Coercion, classes

  • as_list_col() Rvec or matrix to list

  • expand_from_rvec() Inverse of collapse_to_rvec()

  • is_rvec() Object an rvec?

Weighted summaries

  • weighted_mad() Weighted mean absolute deviation

  • weighted_mean() Weighted mean

  • weighted_median() Weighted median

  • weighted_sd() Weighted standard deviation

  • weighted_var() Weighted variances

Datasets

  • divorce() Divorce rates

  • reg_post() Regression coefficients

Packages with similar functionality

Author

Maintainer: John Bryant john@bayesiandemography.com

Other contributors:

  • Bayesian Demography Limited [copyright holder]

Details

An rvec holds multiple draws, but wherever possible behaves like an ordinary R vector. For instance, if x is an rvec holding 1000 draws from a distribution, then 2 * x returns a new rvec where each draw has been multiplied by 2.

To summarise across draws, use a function starting with draws. For instance, to calculate a credible interval, use draws_ci().

See Also