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<h1>Confidence intervals for parameters of mkinfit objects</h1>
<div class="hidden name"><code>confint.mkinfit.Rd</code></div>
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<p>Confidence intervals for parameters of mkinfit objects</p>
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<pre class="usage"><span class='co'># S3 method for mkinfit</span>
<span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span>(<span class='no'>object</span>, <span class='no'>parm</span>, <span class='kw'>level</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>0.95</span>, <span class='kw'>alpha</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> -
<span class='no'>level</span>, <span class='kw'>method</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span>(<span class='st'>"profile"</span>, <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span>), <span class='kw'>transformed</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>,
<span class='kw'>backtransform</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>, <span class='kw'>distribution</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span>(<span class='st'>"student_t"</span>, <span class='st'>"normal"</span>),
<span class='kw'>quiet</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>FALSE</span>, <span class='no'>...</span>)</pre>
<h2 class="hasAnchor" id="arguments"><a class="anchor" href="#arguments"></a>Arguments</h2>
<table class="ref-arguments">
<colgroup><col class="name" /><col class="desc" /></colgroup>
<tr>
<th>object</th>
<td><p>An <code><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></code> object</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>parm</th>
<td><p>A vector of names of the parameters which are to be given
confidence intervals. If missing, all parameters are considered.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>level</th>
<td><p>The confidence level required</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>alpha</th>
<td><p>The allowed error probability, overrides 'level' if specified.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>method</th>
<td><p>The 'profile' method searches the parameter space for the
cutoff of the confidence intervals by means of a likelihood ratio test.
The 'quadratic' method approximates the likelihood function at the
optimised parameters using the second term of the Taylor expansion, using
a second derivative (hessian) contained in the object.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>transformed</th>
<td><p>If the quadratic approximation is used, should it be
applied to the likelihood based on the transformed parameters?</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>backtransform</th>
<td><p>If we approximate the likelihood in terms of the
transformed parameters, should we backtransform the parameters with
their confidence intervals?</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>distribution</th>
<td><p>For the quadratic approximation, should we use
the student t distribution or assume normal distribution for
the parameter estimate</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>quiet</th>
<td><p>Should we suppress messages?</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>...</th>
<td><p>Not used</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2 class="hasAnchor" id="value"><a class="anchor" href="#value"></a>Value</h2>
<p>A matrix with columns giving lower and upper confidence limits for
each parameter.</p>
<h2 class="hasAnchor" id="references"><a class="anchor" href="#references"></a>References</h2>
<p>Pawitan Y (2013) In all likelihood - Statistical modelling and
inference using likelihood. Clarendon Press, Oxford.</p>
<h2 class="hasAnchor" id="examples"><a class="anchor" href="#examples"></a>Examples</h2>
<pre class="examples"><div class='input'><span class='no'>f</span> <span class='kw'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span>(<span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='no'>FOCUS_2006_C</span>, <span class='kw'>quiet</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='fl'>TRUE</span>)
<span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span>(<span class='no'>f</span>, <span class='kw'>method</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span>)</div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5%
#> parent_0 71.8242430 93.1600766
#> k_parent_sink 0.2109541 0.4440528
#> sigma 1.9778868 7.3681380</div><div class='input'><span class='co'># \dontrun{</span>
<span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span>(<span class='no'>f</span>, <span class='kw'>method</span> <span class='kw'>=</span> <span class='st'>"profile"</span>)</div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='message'>Profiling the likelihood</span></div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5%
#> parent_0 71.3471007 93.9447024
#> k_parent_sink 0.2030765 0.4491067
#> sigma 2.9810656 8.8633278</div><div class='input'># }
</div></pre>
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