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AndrewLJackson / SIBER

ellipse and convex hull fitting package for stable isotope data
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SIBER BayesianOverlap #64

Closed brittneydepue closed 4 years ago

brittneydepue commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I am able to run the Bayesianoverlap function in SIBER by using the examples on GitHub. I just can't seem to understand what to do with the values and the histogram that come from these codes. I understand from the examples that you want to do a few hundred draws which would give you a few hundred ellipse area and overlap values. What I don't understand is how I am supposed to take these values and get a single overlap value that is representative of the overlap values calculated. Any help would be appreciated!

AndrewLJackson commented 4 years ago

if you have a Bayesian posterior based on samples from an MCMC like SIBER produces you are advised to present the result using a meausre of central tendency such as mean/median/mode and also some indication of the uncertainty such as a 95% credible interval.