Reads uniform prior distributions (specified with a min and max) from a csv

Reads uniform prior distributions (specified with a min and max) from a csv

read_priors(path_to_csv)

Arguments

path_to_csv

path to a csv file with columns parameter, min and max, and one row for each of the (top-level, fixed-effect) parameters in our statistical model. Such a file gets installed with this package; on your system it should live at the path file.path(system.file("input_priors", package = "dvsb"), "priors.csv"). You can also find the file at the GitHub repository for this code (BDI-pathogens/dvsb) in the subdirectory input_priors.

Value

a list with elements rho_prior_eta (a single number controlling the prior for the eta parameter), df_priors_scalars and df_priors_vectors (dataframes containing the priors for scalar and vector quantities respectively).