d2BC {si4bayesmeta}R Documentation

The second derivative of the Bhattacharyya coefficient

Description

Computes the second derivative of the Bhattacharyya coefficient between two normal densities given a matrix with descriptive statistics. The matrix contains the means and standard deviations for all the parameters in a Bayesian NNHM.

Usage

d2BC(descr_collect, hh)

Arguments

descr_collect

matrix with descritive statistics generated by the descr_extract function

hh

numerical differentiation step

Details

See Roos et al. (2020) for details.

Value

A vector with the second derivative of BC.

References

Roos, M., Hunanyan, S., Bakka, H., Rue, H. (2020). Sensitivity and identification quantification by a relative latent model complexity perturbation in the Bayesian meta-analysis. Manuscript submitted to Research Synthesis Methods.

See Also

descr_extract


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