I want to use the package tgp to create a latin hypercube sample for 12 different parameters. Some of them should be sampled from a uniform distribution (the default), but some I would like to sample from a normal distribution. How do I specify that? I know I need to use the shape and mode arguments, but just don't know which values to enter. I did not find any help in the package's vignette nor did I find any worked examples on the internet. I would be grateful for any expölanations!
Ok, in the mean time I kind of figured it out myself by just playing around with the parameters. I'll post it here in case someone else is interested.
shape=1 gives a flat distribution, shape > 1 gives various bell-shaped distributions
mode = the peak in the distribution that you want to achieve (i.e. the most common value)
So, this gives what looks to me like a normal distribution:
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