This function creates an object of class RprobitB_fit
.
Arguments
- data
An object of class
RprobitB_data
.- scale
A character which determines the utility scale. It is of the form
<parameter> := <value>
, where<parameter>
is either the name of a fixed effect orSigma_<j>,<j>
for the<j>
th diagonal element ofSigma
, and<value>
is the value of the fixed parameter.- normalization
An object of class
RprobitB_normalization
.- R
The number of iterations of the Gibbs sampler.
- B
The length of the burn-in period, i.e. a non-negative number of samples to be discarded.
- Q
The thinning factor for the Gibbs samples, i.e. only every
Q
th sample is kept.- latent_classes
Either
NULL
(for no latent classes) or a list of parameters specifying the number of latent classes and their updating scheme:C
: The fixed number (greater or equal 1) of latent classes, which is set to 1 per default. If eitherweight_update = TRUE
ordp_update = TRUE
(i.e. if classes are updated),C
equals the initial number of latent classes.weight_update
: A boolean, set toTRUE
to weight-based update the latent classes. See ... for details.dp_update
: A boolean, set toTRUE
to update the latent classes based on a Dirichlet process. See ... for details.Cmax
: The maximum number of latent classes.buffer
: The number of iterations to wait before a next weight-based update of the latent classes.epsmin
: The threshold weight (between 0 and 1) for removing a latent class in the weight-based updating scheme.epsmax
: The threshold weight (between 0 and 1) for splitting a latent class in the weight-based updating scheme.distmin
: The (non-negative) threshold in class mean difference for joining two latent classes in the weight-based updating scheme.
- prior
A named list of parameters for the prior distributions. See the documentation of
check_prior
for details about which parameters can be specified.- gibbs_samples
An object of class
RprobitB_gibbs_samples
.- class_sequence
The sequence of class numbers during Gibbs sampling of length
R
.- comp_time
The time spent for Gibbs sampling.
- ...
Currently not used.