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

