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R: Moment prior and inverse moment prior.

dmom	R Documentation

Moment prior and inverse moment prior.

Description

dmom, dimom and demom return the density for the moment, inverse moment and exponential moment priors. pmom, pimom and pemom return the distribution function for the univariate moment, inverse moment and exponential moment priors (respectively). qmom and qimom return the quantiles for the univariate moment and inverse moment priors.

Usage

dmom(x, tau, a.tau, b.tau, phi=1, r=1, V1, baseDensity='normal', nu=3, 
logscale=FALSE, penalty='product')
dimom(x, tau=1, phi=1, V1, logscale=FALSE, penalty='product')
demom(x, tau, a.tau, b.tau, phi=1, logscale=FALSE)

pmom(q, V1 = 1, tau = 1)
pimom(q, V1 = 1, tau = 1, nu = 1)
pemom(q, tau, a.tau, b.tau)

qmom(p, V1 = 1, tau = 1)
qimom(p, V1 = 1, tau = 1, nu = 1)

Arguments

`x`	In the univariate setting, `x` is a vector with the values at which to evaluate the density. In the multivariate setting it is a matrix with an observation in each row.
`q`	Vector of quantiles.
`p`	Vector of probabilities.
`V1`	Scale matrix (ignored if `penalty=='product'`). Defaults to 1 in univariate setting and the identity matrix in the multivariate setting.
`tau`	Prior dispersion parameter is `tau*phi`. See details.
`a.tau`	If `tau` is left missing, an Inverse Gamma(a.tau/2,b.tau/2) is placed on `tau`. In this case `dmom` and `demom` return the density marginalized with respect to `tau`.
`b.tau`	See `a.tau`.
`phi`	Prior dispersion parameter is `tau*phi`. See details.
`r`	Prior power parameter for MOM prior is `2*r`
`baseDensity`	For `baseDensity=='normal'` a normal MOM prior is used, for `baseDensity=='t'` a T MOM prior with `nu` degrees of freedom is used.
`nu`	Prior parameter indicating the degrees of freedom for the quadratic T MOM and iMOM prior densities. The tails of the inverse moment prior are proportional to the tails of a multivariate T with `nu` degrees of freedom.
`penalty`	`penalty=='product'` indicates that product MOM/iMOM should be used. `penalty=='quadratic'` indicates quadratic iMOM. See Details.
`logscale`	For `logscale==TRUE`, `dimom` returns the natural log of the prior density.

Details

For type=='quadratic' the density is as follows. Define the quadratic form q(theta)= (theta-theta0)' * solve(V1) * (theta-theta0) / (tau*phi). The normal moment prior density is proportional to q(theta)*dmvnorm(theta,theta0,tau*phi*V1). The T moment prior is proportional to q(theta)*dmvt(theta,theta0,tau*phi*V1,df=nu). The inverse moment prior density is proportional to q(theta)^(-(nu+d)/2) * exp(-1/q(theta)).

pmom, pimom and qimom use closed-form expressions, while qmom uses nlminb to find quantiles numerically. Only the univariate version is implemented. In this case the product MOM is equivalent to the quadratic MOM. The same happens for the iMOM.

Only the product eMOM prior is implemented.

Value

dmom returns the value of the moment prior density. dimom returns the value of the inverse moment prior density.

Author(s)

David Rossell

References

Johnson V.E., Rossell D. Non-Local Prior Densities for Default Bayesian Hypothesis Tests. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 2010, 72, 143-170.

Johnson V.E., Rossell D. Bayesian model selection in high-dimensional settings. Technical report. 2011

See http://rosselldavid.googlepages.com for technical reports.

Examples

#evaluate and plot the moment and inverse moment priors
library(mombf)
tau <- 1
thseq <- seq(-3,3,length=1000)
plot(thseq,dmom(thseq,tau=tau),type='l',ylab='Prior density')
lines(thseq,dimom(thseq,tau=tau),lty=2,col=2)