How about
require(coda)
data(line)
str(line)
cline <- as.mcmc(do.call(rbind,line))
str(cline)
# Thus
HPDinterval(cline) # (or any FUN.mcmc)
sum(cline[,'alpha'] >= median(cline[,'alpha']))/nrow(cline)
Cheers
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, NORRIS Paul <p.nor...@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm not 100% sure if this question is best directed at the r-list, or a
> mailing list concerned with Bayesian analysis, so please accept my
> apologies if another audience may be more appropriate.
>
> I have been using the rjags package to run Jags models with multiple
> chains and store the results in a Coda based mcmc list. For instance,
> having created a jags model and done initial adapting and updating, I run
> the following command:
>
> coda_odp_gini_only <- coda.samples(odp_gini_only,
> variable.names=c("beta","sigma2.u2",
> "deviance"),
> n.iter=itercount, thin=thincount)
>
> This create an object with 4 separate chains as requested in my initial
> call to Jags which created the object "odp_gini_only". I then use the
> Coda package to look at the results stored in "coda_odp_gini_only". Prior
> to running any analysis with Coda, I used the command,
>
> coda.options(combine.plots=TRUE, combine.stats=TRUE)
>
> to ask for results that combine the four separate chains. Sure enough, if
> I enter "summary(coda_odp_gini_only)", I am given a single set of output
> combining the four chains. However, if I enter
> "HPDinterval(coda_odp_gini_only)" I receive 4 sets of HPD figures, one for
> each chain. Is it possible to combine the four chains together to receive
> a single set of HPD estimates?
>
> In a similar vein, is it possible to use the Coda object to estimate the
> proportion of a given parameters distribution which is above (or below) a
> given value, for instance, the proportion of the distribution of beta[1]
> greater than zero? Again, in doing so, is it possible to combine the
> results of the four chains into a single estimate?
>
> Kind regards, and many thanks in advance for any advice anyone can offer
> me.
>
> Paul
> Dr Paul Norris
> Lecturer in Social Policy
> University of Edinburgh
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