confint {MASS} | R Documentation |
Computes confidence intervals for one or more parameters in a fitted
model. Methods currently exist for glm
and nls
fits.
confint(object, parm = <<see below>>, level = 0.95, ...)
object |
a fitted model object. Methods currently exist for the classes
"glm" , "nls" and for profile objects from these classes.
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parm |
a specification of which parameters are to be given confidence intervals, either a vector of numbers or a vector of names. If missing, all parameters are considered. |
level |
the confidence level required. |
... |
additional argument(s) for methods the glm methods allows trace .
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confint
calls the appropriate profile method, then finds the
confidence intervals by interpolation in the profile traces.
If the profile object is already available it should be used as the
main argument rather than the fitted model object itself.
A matrix (or vector) with columns giving lower and upper confidence limits for each parameter. These will be labelled as (1-level)/2 and 1 - (1-level)/2 in % (by default 2.5% and 97.5%).
library(nls) data(wtloss) expn1 <- deriv(y ~ b0 + b1 * 2^(-x/th), c("b0", "b1", "th"), function(b0, b1, th, x) {}) wtloss.gr <- nls(Weight ~ expn1(b0, b1, th, Days), data = wtloss, start = c(b0=90, b1=95, th=120)) expn2 <- deriv(~b0 + b1*((w0 - b0)/b1)^(x/d0), c("b0","b1","d0"), function(b0, b1, d0, x, w0) {}) wtloss.init <- function(obj, w0) { p <- coef(obj) d0 <- - log((w0 - p["b0"])/p["b1"])/log(2) * p["th"] c(p[c("b0", "b1")], d0 = as.vector(d0)) } out <- NULL w0s <- c(110, 100, 90) for(w0 in w0s) { fm <- nls(Weight ~ expn2(b0, b1, d0, Days, w0), wtloss, start = wtloss.init(wtloss.gr, w0)) out <- rbind(out, c(coef(fm)["d0"], confint(fm, "d0"))) } dimnames(out) <- list(paste(w0s, "kg:"), c("d0", "low", "high")) out