Thin an MCMC sample

Description

Thins the output from an MCMC process

Usage

thin(x, k)

Arguments

Details

Note this function does not check to see if k is sensible.

Value

A thinned vector, matrix or data frame containing every kth element of x.

Examples

## A blockwise Metropolis-Hastings chain of 1000 elements, thinned to
## 5th element
##

MCMCSampleBW <- bivnormMH(0.9, type = 'block')
MCMCSampleBW <- thin(MCMCSampleBW, 5)

Results

R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
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> library(Bolstad2)
> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/Bolstad2/thin.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: thin
> ### Title: Thin an MCMC sample
> ### Aliases: thin
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> ## A blockwise Metropolis-Hastings chain of 1000 elements, thinned to
> ## 5th element
> ##
> 
> MCMCSampleBW <- bivnormMH(0.9, type = 'block')
> MCMCSampleBW <- thin(MCMCSampleBW, 5)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> dev.off()
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          1 
>