Coercing Random Vectors to Real-valued

Coerces random vector objects into double-valued ones.

# S3 method for rv
as.double(x, ...)

Arguments

x

an rv object

...

other arguments

Details

as.double coerces an rv object into double-valued one. In effect, the function as.double is applied to all simulations.

References

Kerman, J. and Gelman, A. (2007). Manipulating and Summarizing Posterior Simulations Using Random Variable Objects. Statistics and Computing 17:3, 235-244.

See also vignette("rv").

Author

Jouni Kerman jouni@kerman.com

Examples

  x <- as.logical(rvbern(prob=0.5)) 
  print(x)
#>     mean  sd 1% 2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5% 99% sims
#> [1]  0.5 0.5  0    0   0   0   1     1   1 4000
  print(as.double(x))
#>     mean  sd 1% 2.5% 25% 50% 75% 97.5% 99% sims
#> [1]  0.5 0.5  0    0   0   0   1     1   1 4000