HierarchicalDesign

HierarchicalDesign stores a collection of named DesignArm objects and derives the corresponding HierarchicalData and HierarchicalModel objects from them.

Usage

HierarchicalDesign(
  ...,
  exchangeable_parameters = list(),
  pool_correlations = list(),
  pool_priors = list()
)

.DefaultHierarchicalDesign()

Arguments

...

DesignArm objects describing the trial arms. These can be created with DesignArm() or HistoricalArm().

exchangeable_parameters

(list)
see HierarchicalModel().

pool_correlations

(list)
see HierarchicalModel().

pool_priors

(list)
see HierarchicalModel().

Slots

arms

(list)
a named list of DesignArm objects.

data

(HierarchicalData)
the hierarchical data object assembled from the arm-specific design data.

model

(HierarchicalModel)
the hierarchical model object assembled from the arm-specific design models.

Note

Typically, end users will not use the .DefaultHierarchicalDesign() function directly.