rtnorm {BART}R Documentation

Testing truncated Normal sampling

Description

Truncated Normal latents are necessary to transform a binary BART into a continuous BART.

Usage

rtnorm(n, mean, sd, tau)

Arguments

n

Number of samples.

mean

Mean.

sd

Standard deviation.

tau

Truncation point.

Value

Returns n truncated Normals, i.e., N(mean, sd)I(tau, infinity).

Author(s)

Robert McCulloch: robert.e.mcculloch@gmail.com,
Rodney Sparapani: rsparapa@mcw.edu
, Robert Gramacy: rbg@vt.edu.

References

Robert, C.P. (1995) Simulation of truncated normal variables. Statistics and computing, 5(2), 121–125.

See Also

pbart, lbart

Examples


set.seed(12)

rtnorm(1, 0, 1, 3)
rtnorm(1, 0, 1, 3)



[Package BART version 2.5 Index]