rvnchains                 package:rv                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Retrieves the number of mcmc chains in each components of the
     argument.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     rvnchains(x)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

       x: an rv object (supposed to be generated by a MCMC process)

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Assumes that the rv object was generated by a MCMC process. Umacs
     and R2WinBUGS are compatible.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jouni Kerman kerman@stat.columbia.edu <URL:
     http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~kerman>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Kerman, Jouni and Gelman, Andrew. Manipulating and Summarizing
     Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Technical
     report, Columbia University, New York.

     Kerman, Jouni. Umacs: A Universal Markov Chain Sampler. Technical
     report, Columbia University, New York.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'as.rv.bugs'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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