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Writes likelihood scripts for JAGS model calls

Source: R/write_likelihood.R
write_likelihood.Rd

This function writes an R script for JAGS to call based on the selected distribution and prior. The priors are uninformative and set based on emissions data, unless specified manually via setup_likelihood(). The likelihood distributions are truncated to (0,maxY), where maxY can be specified or used with the default maxY = 3*max(data$emissions) in run_likelihood().

Usage

write_likelihood(distribution, manual_prior = FALSE, write_wd = NULL)

Arguments

distribution

Any of 'Normal', 'Gamma', 'Skewed', 'Lognormal', or 'Beta'.

manual_prior

Default is FALSE, if priors should be specified manually or be uninformative calculated from range of emissions data.

write_wd

Default is NULL, in which case the JAGS scripts are written into inst/JAGS folder in package directory. This is the location run_likelihood() will look for the JAGS scripts assigned via setup_likelihood().

Value

object model_code, which is a string for the written R script that JAGS can call and the distribution used in likelihood model.