Approximate posterior

Approximate the posterior MCMC with a closed form pdf

approx.posterior(
  trait.mcmc,
  priors,
  trait.data = NULL,
  outdir = NULL,
  filename.flag = ""
)

Arguments

trait.mcmc

meta analysis outputs

priors

dataframe of priors used in meta analysis

trait.data

data used in meta-analysis (used for plotting)

outdir

directory in which to plot results

filename.flag

text to be included in the posteriors.pdf filename to make unique

Value

posteriors data frame, similar to priors, but with closed form pdfs fit to meta-analysis results

Details

returns priors where posterior MCMC are missing

NOTE: this function is similar to PEcAn.priors::fit.dist

Author

David LeBauer, Carl Davidson, Mike Dietze

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  data('trait.mcmc', package = 'PEcAn.utils')
  data('prior.distns', package = 'PEcAn.utils')
  approx.posterior(trait.mcmc, priors = prior.distns)
} # }