seed                   package:XDE                   R Documentation

_S_e_e_d _f_o_r _t_h_e _M_C_M_C

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Setting a seed is useful for reproducing MCMC chains

_U_s_a_g_e:

     seed(object)
     seed(object) <- value

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  object: An object of 'XdeParameter' or 'XdeMcmc' 

   value: Numeric or integer

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The seed stored in the slot of an object of class 'XdeParameter'
     and an object of class 'XdeMcmc' are useful in different ways. For
     the 'XdeParameter' class, the seed indicates what seed was used to
     initialize an MCMC chain.  By contrast, an object of class
     'XdeMcmc' contains a seed that would be useful for running
     additional iterations - the seed here is guaranteed to be
     different from the seed that was used to initiate the MCMC.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An integer

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     R. Scharpf

