confint.univariateML: Confidence Intervals for Maximum Likelihood Estimates

Description

Computes a confidence interval for one or more parameters in a unvariateML object.

Usage

# S3 method for univariateML
confint(object, parm = NULL, level = 0.95, Nreps = 1000, ...)

Value

A matrix or vector with columns giving lower and upper confidence limits for each parameter in parm.

Arguments

object: An object of class univariateML.
parm: Vector of strings; the parameters to calculate a confidence interval for. Each parameter must be a member of names(object).
level: The confidence level.
Nreps: Number of bootstrap iterations. Passed to bootstrapml().
...: Additional arguments passed to bootstrapml().

Details

confint.univariateML is a wrapper for bootstrapml() that computes confidence intervals for the main parameters of object. The main parameters of object are the members of names(object). For instance, the main parameters of an object obtained from mlnorm are mean and sd. The confidence intervals are parametric bootstrap percentile intervals with limits (1-level)/2 and 1 - (1-level).

Examples

Run this code

object <- mlinvgauss(airquality$Wind)
confint(object) # 95% confidence interval for mean and shape
confint(object, "mean") # 95% confidence interval for the mean parameter
# confint(object, "variance") # Fails since 'variance isn't a main parameter.