rstantools (version 2.4.0)

posterior_predict: Generic function for drawing from the posterior predictive distribution

Description

Draw from the posterior predictive distribution of the outcome. See posterior_predict.stanreg() in the rstanarm package for an example.

Usage

posterior_predict(object, ...)

Value

posterior_predict() methods should return a \(D\) by \(N\)

matrix, where \(D\) is the number of draws from the posterior predictive distribution and \(N\) is the number of data points being predicted per draw.

Arguments

object

The object to use.

...

Arguments passed to methods. See the methods in the rstanarm package for examples.

See Also

• The rstanarm package (mc-stan.org/rstanarm) for example methods (CRAN, GitHub).

• Guidelines and recommendations for developers of R packages interfacing with Stan and a demonstration getting a simple package working can be found in the vignettes included with rstantools and at mc-stan.org/rstantools/articles.

Examples

# See help("posterior_predict", package = "rstanarm")