R: Geweke-Brooks plot

geweke.plot {coda} | R Documentation

## Geweke-Brooks plot

### Description

If `geweke.diag` indicates that the first and last part of a sample from a Markov chain are not drawn from the same distribution, it may be useful to discard the first few iterations to see if the rest of the chain has "converged". This plot shows what happens to Geweke's Z-score when successively larger numbers of iterations are discarded from the beginning of the chain. To preserve the asymptotic conditions required for Geweke's diagnostic, the plot never discards more than half the chain.

The first half of the Markov chain is divided into `nbins - 1` segments, then Geweke's Z-score is repeatedly calculated. The first Z-score is calculated with all iterations in the chain, the second after discarding the first segment, the third after discarding the first two segments, and so on. The last Z-score is calculated using only the samples in the second half of the chain.

### Usage

    geweke.plot(x, frac1 = 0.1, frac2 = 0.5, nbins = 20,
                pvalue = 0.05, auto.layout = TRUE, ask, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | an mcmc object
`frac1` | fraction to use from beginning of chain.
`frac2` | fraction to use from end of chain.
`nbins` | Number of segments.
`pvalue` | p-value used to plot confidence limits for the null hypothesis.
`auto.layout` | If `TRUE` then, set up own layout for plots, otherwise use existing one.
`ask` | If `TRUE` then prompt user before displaying each page of plots. Default is `dev.interactive()` in R and `interactive()` in S-PLUS.
`...` | Graphical parameters.

### Note

The graphical implementation of Geweke's diagnostic was suggested by Steve Brooks.

### See Also

`geweke.diag`.

[Package coda version 0.19-1 Index]