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gammaLogLikelihood: Gamma log-likelihood

Description

Used in calculating model probability in Metropolis-Hastings algorithm when proposals are from the Gamma distribution.

Usage

gammaLogLikelihood(x, shape, rate)

Value

the log-likelihood of x in a Gamma with parameters shape and rate.

Arguments

x

- double; the value to calculate the likelihood of.

shape

- double; the shape of the Gamma distribution.

rate

- double; the rate of the Gamma distribution