This function prints information on models specified for (incomplete) covariates in a JointAI object, including the model type, names of the parameters used and hyperparameters.

list_models(object, predvars = TRUE, regcoef = TRUE,
otherpars = TRUE, priors = TRUE, refcat = TRUE)

## Arguments

object object inheriting from class 'JointAI' logical; should information on the predictor variables be printed? (default is TRUE) logical; should information on the regression coefficients be printed? (default is TRUE) logical; should information on other parameters be printed? (default is TRUE) logical; should information on the priors (and hyperparameters) be printed? (default is TRUE) logical; should information on the reference category be printed? (default is TRUE)

## Note

The models listed by this function are not the actual imputation models, but the conditional models that are part of the specification of the joint distribution. Briefly, the joint distribution is specified as a sequence of conditional models $$p(y | x_1, x_2, x_3, ..., \theta) p(x_1|x_2, x_3, ..., \theta) p(x_2|x_3, ..., \theta) ...$$ The actual imputation models are the full conditional distributions $$p(x_1 | \cdot)$$ derived from this joint distribution. Even though the conditional distributions do not contain the outcome and all other covariates in their linear predictor, outcome and other covariates are taken into account implicitly, since imputations are sampled from the full conditional distributions. For more details, see Erler et al. (2016) and Erler et al. (2019).

The function list_models prints information on the conditional distributions of the covariates (since they are what is specified; the full-conditionals are automatically derived within JAGS). The outcome is, thus, not part of the printed linear predictor, but is still included during imputation.

## References

Erler, N.S., Rizopoulos, D., Rosmalen, J.V., Jaddoe, V.W., Franco, O.H., & Lesaffre, E.M.E.H. (2016). Dealing with missing covariates in epidemiologic studies: A comparison between multiple imputation and a full Bayesian approach. Statistics in Medicine, 35(17), 2955-2974.

Erler, N.S., Rizopoulos D. and Lesaffre E.M.E.H. (2019). JointAI: Joint Analysis and Imputation of Incomplete Data in R. arXiv e-prints, arXiv:1907.10867. URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10867.

## Examples

# (set n.adapt = 0 and n.iter = 0 to prevent MCMC sampling to save time)
mod1 <- lm_imp(y ~ C1 + C2 + M2 + O2 + B2, data = wideDF, n.adapt = 0, n.iter = 0, mess = FALSE)

list_models(mod1)#> Cumulative logit model for "O2"
#> * Reference category: "1"
#> * Predictor variables:
#>   C1
#> * Regression coefficients:
#>   alpha[1] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#> * Intercepts:
#>   - 1: gamma_O2[1] (normal prior with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#>   - 2: gamma_O2[2] = gamma_O2[1] + exp(delta_O2[1])
#>   - 3: gamma_O2[3] = gamma_O2[2] + exp(delta_O2[2])
#> * Increments:
#>   delta_O2[1:2] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#>
#> Multinomial logit model for "M2"
#> * Reference category: "1"
#> * Predictor variables:
#>   (Intercept), C1, O22, O23, O24
#> * Regression coefficients:
#>   - 'M22': alpha[2:6] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#>   - 'M23': alpha[7:11] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#>   - 'M24': alpha[12:16] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#>
#> Linear regression model for "C2"
#> * Predictor variables:
#>   (Intercept), C1, O22, O23, O24, M22, M23, M24
#> * Regression coefficients:
#>   alpha[17:24] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)
#> * Precision of 'C2':
#>   tau_C2 (Gamma prior with shape parameter 0.01 and rate parameter 0.01)
#>
#> Logistic regression model for "B2"
#> * Reference category: "0"
#> * Predictor variables:
#>   (Intercept), C1, O22, O23, O24, M22, M23, M24, C2
#> * Regression coefficients:
#>   alpha[25:33] (normal prior(s) with mean 0 and precision 1e-04)