Generic function for accessing the posterior distribution of the conditional expectation — posterior_epred • rstantools

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Extract the posterior draws of the conditional expectation. See the rstanarm package for an example.

posterior_epred(object, ...)

Arguments

object: The object to use.
...: Arguments passed to methods. See the methods in the rstanarm package for examples.

Value

posterior_epred() methods should return a $D$ by $N$

matrix, where $D$ is the number of draws from the posterior distribution distribution and $N$ is the number of data points.

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.