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Prior distributions for Rceattle linkage coefficients

Source: R/0-priors.R
Rceattle_priors.Rd

Each prior is captured as a small object of class "Rceattle_prior" carrying a family name and two positional parameters (p1, p2). The two-parameter shape is enforced so the linkage table can store priors uniformly as four columns (prior_family, prior_p1, prior_p2, plus reserved future use).

Details

Two surfaces are provided:

  1. Programmatic constructors – exported with the prior_ prefix (prior_normal(), prior_lognormal(), ...), safe to call anywhere without masking base::gamma()/base::beta().

  2. Inline form inside linkage_spec(priors = ...). There the argument is captured unevaluated and resolved with a private data mask that makes normal(), lognormal(), gamma(), and beta() shorthand for the respective prior_* constructors – only inside that argument. Base R remains untouched at the package namespace.