PriorNormal Class

A class for defining normal priors to be translated to Stan code. Objects of class PriorNormal should not be created directly but by the constructor prior_normal().

Slots

stan_code

character. Stan implementation of the prior, with placeholders for normal stan function parameters surrounded with {{ and }} to be replaced with glue::glue().

n_param

integer. Number of prior parameters (2).

constraint

character. Support of prior distribution, (all values allowed in normal distribution).

mu

numeric. Location.

sigma

numeric. Scale (>0).

See also

Other prior classes: Prior-class, PriorBernoulli-class, PriorBeta-class, PriorCauchy-class, PriorExponential-class, PriorGamma-class, PriorHalfCauchy-class, PriorHalfNormal-class, PriorPoisson-class, UniformPrior-class