Covariates-class {demest} | R Documentation

## S4 class to specify the covariates term of a prior.

### Description

An object of class `Covariates` holds the information required to construct a covariates term in a prior for a main effect or interaction.

### Slots

`formula`

  An R `formula`.

`data`

  A data.frame holding the covariate data.

`contrastsArg`

  A named list of contrasts, as described in the documentation for `model.matrix`. #' @slot nuEtaCoef Degrees of freedom for the t priors for the coefficients.

`AEtaCoef`

  Scale parameter for the t priors for the coefficients.

`multEtaCoef`

  Multiplier for `AEtaCoef`.

### Warning

In normal usage, it should not be necessary to access, or even know about, the slots of a `Covariates` object. The slots are not part of the API of the package, and may change in future.

### See Also

Objects of class `Covariates` are created by a call to function `Covariates`.

[Package demest version 0.0.0.3.1 Index]