Prior sd

Computes standard deviation of a prior distribution.

# S3 method for prior
sd(x, ...)

Arguments

x

a prior

...

unused arguments

Value

a standard deviation of an object of class 'prior'.

See also

prior()

Examples

# create a standard normal prior distribution
p1 <- prior(distribution = "normal", parameters = list(mean = 1, sd = 1))

# compute sd of the prior distribution
sd(p1)
#> [1] 1