LCA (version 0.1.1)

estimateB: ML Estimation of Laplace Beta

Description

Estimates initial value of parameter Beta from the PTL distribution used in LCA analysis.

Usage

estimateB(x)

Arguments

x

Numeric vector of differences between the values of each feature, for a pair of objects in the dataset.

Value

Numeric value for initial estimate of PTL distribution parameter Beta

Details

Calculates maximum-likelihood estimate for Beta in the Laplace distribution fit to distribution of x.