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2008 Feb 11
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PDF with computationally expensive normalizing constant
...for the NC.
And once the NC is evaluated, it would be
good to store it somehow.
I thought perhaps I could define an S4 class with a slot for
the parameters and a slot for the NC; and
if the NC is unknown this would have an "NA" entry.
Then a user could execute something like
a <- CalculateNormalizingConstant(a)
and after this, object "a" would then have the numerically
computed NC in place.
Is this a Good Idea?
Are there any PDFs implemented in R in which this is an issue?
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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst and Neutral Theorist,
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
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