Get the Start Time of an MCMC List

This function returns the start time or the first element of the first chain in an MCMC list.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'mcmc.list'
start(x, ...)

Arguments

x

An object of class mcmc.list, which is a list of MCMC chains.

...

Additional arguments (currently not used).

Value

The result of calling the start function on the first element of the MCMC list.

Examples

# Assuming `mcmc_list` is an object of class `mcmc.list`
# start_time <- start.mcmc.list(mcmc_list)