Computes variance
of a prior distribution.
# S3 method for prior
var(x, ...)
Arguments
- x
a prior
- ...
unused arguments
Value
a variance of an object of class 'prior'.
Examples
# create a standard normal prior distribution
p1 <- prior(distribution = "normal", parameters = list(mean = 1, sd = 1))
# compute variance of the prior distribution
var(p1)
#> [1] 1