An S4 class representing the model component of the simulator.

An object of class Model specifies the statistical model. In particular, all parameters are specified in addition to a function called simulate that allows one to draw random samples from this model.

Details

To get parameters stored in a Model object, a shortcut for my_model@params$my_parameter is my_model$my_parameter.

This class inherits from the Component class.

Slots

name

a short name identifier. Must be alphanumeric (though -, _, and / are allowed as long as they are not at the start or end of name.

label

a longer, human readable label that can have other characters such as spaces, hyphens, etc.

params

a list that contains the Model object's parameters

simulate

a function that has arguments nsim and names matching elements within names(params). It returns a list of length nsim, where each element of the list represents a random draw from the Model object.