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R6 Class representing the specification of the BVARPANEL model

Source: R/specify_bvarpanel.R
specify_bvarPANEL.Rd

The class BVARPANEL presents complete specification for the Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregression.

Public fields

p

a non-negative integer specifying the autoregressive lag order of the model.

prior

an object PriorBSVAR with the prior specification.

data_matrices

an object DataMatricesBVARPANEL with the data matrices.

starting_values

an object StartingValuesBVARPANEL with the starting values.

adaptiveMH

a vector of four values setting the adaptive MH sampler for nu: adaptive rate, target acceptance rate, the iteration at which to start adapting, the initial scaling rate

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Create a new specification of the Bayesian Panel VAR model BVARPANEL.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$new(
  data,
  p = 1L,
  exogenous = NULL,
  stationary = rep(FALSE, ncol(data[[1]])),
  type = rep("real", ncol(data[[1]]))
)

Arguments

data

a list with C elements of (T_c+p)xN matrices with time series data.

p

a positive integer providing model's autoregressive lag order.

exogenous

a (T+p)xd matrix of exogenous variables.

stationary

an N logical vector - its element set to FALSE sets the prior mean for the autoregressive parameters of the Nth equation to the white noise process, otherwise to random walk.

type

an N character vector with elements set to "rate" or "real" determining the truncation of the predictive density to [0, 100] and (-Inf, Inf) (no truncation) for each of the variables.

Returns

A new complete specification for the Bayesian Panel VAR model BVARPANEL.

Method get_data_matrices()

Returns the data matrices as the DataMatricesBVARPANEL object.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$get_data_matrices()

Examples

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_data_matrices()

Method get_prior()

Returns the prior specification as the PriorBVARPANEL object.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$get_prior()

Examples

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_prior()

Method get_starting_values()

Returns the starting values as the StartingValuesBVARPANEL object.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$get_starting_values()

Examples

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_starting_values()

Method set_adaptiveMH()

Sets the parameters of adaptive Metropolis-Hastings sampler for the parameter nu.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$set_adaptiveMH(x)

Arguments

x

a vector of four values setting the adaptive MH sampler for nu: adaptive rate, target acceptance rate, the iteration at which to start adapting, the initial scaling rate

Examples

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$set_adaptiveMH(c(0.6, 0.4, 10, 0.1))

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

specify_bvarPANEL$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)


## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `specify_bvarPANEL$get_data_matrices`
## ------------------------------------------------

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_data_matrices()
#> <DataMatricesBVARPANEL>
#>   Public:
#>     X: list
#>     Y: list
#>     clone: function (deep = FALSE) 
#>     get_data_matrices: function () 
#>     initialize: function (data, p = 1L, exogenous = NULL, type = rep("real", 
#>     type: real real real real


## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `specify_bvarPANEL$get_prior`
## ------------------------------------------------

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_prior()
#> <PriorBVARPANEL>
#>   Public:
#>     M: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  ...
#>     S_Sigma_inv: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
#>     S_inv: 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
#>     W: 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  ...
#>     a_w: 1
#>     clone: function (deep = FALSE) 
#>     eta: 5
#>     get_prior: function () 
#>     initialize: function (C, N, p, d = 0, stationary = rep(FALSE, N)) 
#>     lambda: 72
#>     mu_Sigma: 5
#>     mu_m: 1
#>     nu_s: 3
#>     s_s: 1
#>     s_w: 1
#>     sigma2_m: 1


## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `specify_bvarPANEL$get_starting_values`
## ------------------------------------------------

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$get_starting_values()
#> <StartingValuesBVARPANEL>
#>   Public:
#>     A: 0.999230635698952 -0.00130223937362809 0.001719595068390 ...
#>     A_c: -0.000694570831098767 -0.000203551325856739 -4.779979618 ...
#>     Sigma: 0.753033128822941 -0.100541598873118 1.46035795396776 0. ...
#>     Sigma_c: 4.02159164743669 -0.627385188227751 -3.03551169164957 -0 ...
#>     V: 14.0126091461194 6.84941951260925 6.30773379509415 -4.47 ...
#>     clone: function (deep = FALSE) 
#>     get_starting_values: function () 
#>     initialize: function (C, N, p, d = 0) 
#>     m: -0.000484056264576066
#>     nu: 5.1
#>     s: 1.13092878911483
#>     set_starting_values: function (last_draw) 
#>     w: 0.612215353680355


## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `specify_bvarPANEL$set_adaptiveMH`
## ------------------------------------------------

data(ilo_dynamic_panel)
spec = specify_bvarPANEL$new(
   data = ilo_dynamic_panel,
   p = 4
)
spec$set_adaptiveMH(c(0.6, 0.4, 10, 0.1))