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1. 01structures/RHistory

01structures/RHistory [ Definitions ]

NAME

    RHistory --- structure to store MCMC history in R

FUNCTION

This type of structure contains the state of the MCMC procedure at each iteration. It is the R analogue of the CHistory structure.

In R, this is implemented as a simple list. Most of the components are defined at initialization, others are added during the procedure. Each of the component has maxiter rows, and as many columns as needed to store the vector at each iteration. For spline parameters and knots, enough storage is allocated to store the maximum number of knots permitted by the adaptive selection procedure (if used). Unused storage is filled with -Inf.

See inithistory for the allocation procedure.

       frailty                 frailty estimates for each cluster
       coefficients            regression coefficient estimates
       hazard.spline.par       hazard spline parameters
       hazard.spline.knots     hazard spline knots
       frailty.spline.par      frailty spline parameters
       frailty.spline.knots    frailty spline knots
       frailty.spline.fvar     frailty spline variance
       hazard.param.par        hazard parametric component parameters
       frailty.param.par       frailty parametric component parameters
       hazard.weight           hazard spline component weight
       frailty.weight          frailty spline component weight
       priorvar                matrix of prior variances 
       accept                  matrix of acceptance rates

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01structures/RHistory [ Definitions ]