SpecKnown-class {demest} | R Documentation

## A S4 class to specify a Known prior.

### Description

An object of class `SpecKnown` specifies a prior in which parameter[j] ~ N(mean[j], sd[j]^2), where sd[j] can be 0. For details, see the documentation for function `Known`.

### Slots

`alphaKnown`

  Mean values.

`AKnownVec`

  Standard deviations.

`metadata`

  Metadata for mean values and standard deviations.

### Warning

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

### See Also

Object of class `SpecExchFixed` should be generated using function `ExchFixed`. More complicated exchangeable priors are specified by object of class `SpecExch`.

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