Used by metaSDTreg to calculate starting values using the partial proportional odds model as implemented in ordinal. Internal function.
starting.vals.PPO(formula0, data0, control0, L0, K0, n.covar0)A named vector of starting values.
See metaSDTreg.
Data frame.
See metaSDTcontrol.
Number of levels in ordinal type 2 response.
Number of levels of ordinal response 'A'.
Number of covariates aside from the 'signal' variable.
The function calls the clm function using all.vars(update(formula0, . ~ . - signal)) as the formula argument and using ~ signal as the nominal argument (also see metaSDTreg for the meaning of the signal variable).
The coefficients of the signal variable are weighted together within the noise- and signal-specific type 2 responses using their inverse standard errors as weights.