Helper functions for the RBi package

RBi.helpers is collection of helper functions to use with RBi, an R interface to LibBi, a library for Bayesian Inference.

It contains:

• adapt_proposal, to adapt the proposal distribution of a model according to the empirical standard deviations of accepted parameters
• adapt_particles, to adapt the number of particles at a given point in parameter space.
• DIC, to compute the DIC of a pMCMC run
• acceptance_rate, to calculate the acceptance rate of a pMCMC run

Installation

The easiest way to install rbi.helpers is to use the devtools package:

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("sbfnk/rbi.helpers")