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The alternative method 'profile' is based on the profile likelihood for each parameter. The 'profile' method uses two nested optimisations and can take a very long time, even if parallelized by specifying 'cores' on unixoid platforms. The speed of the method could likely be improved by using the method of Venzon and Moolgavkar (1988).</p> </div> <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='op'>(</span> <span class='va'>object</span>, <span class='va'>parm</span>, level <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>0.95</span>, alpha <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='va'>level</span>, <span class='va'>cutoff</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"quadratic"</span>, <span class='st'>"profile"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, transformed <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span>, backtransform <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span>, cores <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'>parallel</span><span class='fu'>::</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/parallel/detectCores.html'>detectCores</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>)</span>, rel_tol <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>0.01</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>FALSE</span>, <span class='va'>...</span> <span class='op'>)</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>cutoff</th> <td><p>Possibility to specify an alternative cutoff for the difference in the log-likelihoods at the confidence boundary. Specifying an explicit cutoff value overrides arguments 'level' and 'alpha'</p></td> </tr> <tr> <th>method</th> <td><p>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. The 'profile' method searches the parameter space for the cutoff of the confidence intervals by means of a likelihood ratio test.</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>cores</th> <td><p>The number of cores to be used for multicore processing. On Windows machines, cores > 1 is currently not supported.</p></td> </tr> <tr> <th>rel_tol</th> <td><p>If the method is 'profile', what should be the accuracy of the lower and upper bounds, relative to the estimate obtained from the quadratic method?</p></td> </tr> <tr> <th>quiet</th> <td><p>Should we suppress the message "Profiling the likelihood"</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>Bates DM and Watts GW (1988) Nonlinear regression analysis & its applications</p> <p>Pawitan Y (2013) In all likelihood - Statistical modelling and inference using likelihood. Clarendon Press, Oxford.</p> <p>Venzon DJ and Moolgavkar SH (1988) A Method for Computing Profile-Likelihood Based Confidence Intervals, Applied Statistics, 37, 87–94.</p> <h2 class="hasAnchor" id="examples"><a class="anchor" href="#examples"></a>Examples</h2> <pre class="examples"><div class='input'><span class='va'>f</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='va'>FOCUS_2006_C</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 71.8242430 93.1600766 #> k_parent 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='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"profile"</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='message'>Profiling the likelihood</span></div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 73.0641834 92.1392181 #> k_parent 0.2170293 0.4235348 #> sigma 3.1307772 8.0628314</div><div class='input'> <span class='co'># Set the number of cores for the profiling method for further examples</span> <span class='kw'>if</span> <span class='op'>(</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/identical.html'>identical</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html'>Sys.getenv</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"NOT_CRAN"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, <span class='st'>"true"</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='op'>{</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'>parallel</span><span class='fu'>::</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/parallel/detectCores.html'>detectCores</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> <span class='op'>}</span> <span class='kw'>else</span> <span class='op'>{</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> <span class='op'>}</span> <span class='kw'>if</span> <span class='op'>(</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.getenv.html'>Sys.getenv</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"TRAVIS"</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='op'>!=</span> <span class='st'>""</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> <span class='kw'>if</span> <span class='op'>(</span><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/Sys.info.html'>Sys.info</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>[</span><span class='st'>"sysname"</span><span class='op'>]</span> <span class='op'>==</span> <span class='st'>"Windows"</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span> <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span> <span class='va'>SFO_SFO</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinmod.html'>mkinmod</a></span><span class='op'>(</span>parent <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='st'>"m1"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, m1 <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>SFO_SFO.ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinmod.html'>mkinmod</a></span><span class='op'>(</span>parent <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span>, <span class='st'>"m1"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, m1 <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, use_of_ff <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"max"</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>f_d_1</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>SFO_SFO</span>, <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/subset.html'>subset</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>FOCUS_2006_D</span>, <span class='va'>value</span> <span class='op'>!=</span> <span class='fl'>0</span><span class='op'>)</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='warning'>Warning: Shapiro-Wilk test for standardized residuals: p = 0.0165</span></div><div class='input'><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/system.time.html'>system.time</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_profile</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_1</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"profile"</span>, cores <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fl'>1</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> user system elapsed #> 3.770 1.035 3.460 </div><div class='input'><span class='co'># Using more cores does not save much time here, as parent_0 takes up most of the time</span> <span class='co'># If we additionally exclude parent_0 (the confidence of which is often of</span> <span class='co'># minor interest), we get a nice performance improvement from about 50</span> <span class='co'># seconds to about 12 seconds if we use at least four cores</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/system.time.html'>system.time</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_profile_no_parent_0</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_1</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"profile"</span>, <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"k_parent_sink"</span>, <span class='st'>"k_parent_m1"</span>, <span class='st'>"k_m1_sink"</span>, <span class='st'>"sigma"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, cores <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='message'>Profiling the likelihood</span></div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='warning'>Warning: scheduled cores 3, 2, 1 encountered errors in user code, all values of the jobs will be affected</span></div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='error'>Error in dimnames(x) <- dn: length of 'dimnames' [2] not equal to array extent</span></div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='message'>Timing stopped at: 0.014 0.027 0.196</span></div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_profile</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.456003640 1.027703e+02 #> k_parent 0.090911032 1.071578e-01 #> k_m1 0.003892605 6.702778e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.471328495 5.611550e-01 #> sigma 2.535612399 3.985263e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_1</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.403839460 1.027931e+02 #> k_parent 0.090823790 1.072543e-01 #> k_m1 0.004012216 6.897547e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.469118713 5.595960e-01 #> sigma 2.396089689 3.854918e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_1</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span>, transformed <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>FALSE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.403839413 1.027931e+02 #> k_parent 0.090491931 1.069035e-01 #> k_m1 0.003835483 6.685819e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.469113365 5.598386e-01 #> sigma 2.396089689 3.854918e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='co'># Against the expectation based on Bates and Watts (1988), the confidence</span> <span class='co'># intervals based on the internal parameter transformation are less</span> <span class='co'># congruent with the likelihood based intervals. Note the superiority of the</span> <span class='co'># interval based on the untransformed fit for k_m1_sink</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/MathFun.html'>abs</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='va'>ci_profile</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>/</span><span class='va'>ci_profile</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/MathFun.html'>abs</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='va'>ci_profile</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>/</span><span class='va'>ci_profile</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed</span> <span class='op'><</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 TRUE TRUE #> k_parent TRUE TRUE #> k_m1 FALSE FALSE #> f_parent_to_m1 TRUE FALSE #> sigma FALSE FALSE</div><div class='input'><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/Round.html'>signif</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed</span>, <span class='fl'>3</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 0.000541 0.000222 #> k_parent 0.000960 0.000900 #> k_m1 0.030700 0.029100 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.004690 0.002780 #> sigma 0.055000 0.032700</div><div class='input'><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/Round.html'>signif</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed</span>, <span class='fl'>3</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 0.000541 0.000222 #> k_parent 0.004610 0.002370 #> k_m1 0.014700 0.002530 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.004700 0.002350 #> sigma 0.055000 0.032700</div><div class='input'> <span class='co'># Investigate a case with formation fractions</span> <span class='va'>f_d_2</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>SFO_SFO.ff</span>, <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/subset.html'>subset</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>FOCUS_2006_D</span>, <span class='va'>value</span> <span class='op'>!=</span> <span class='fl'>0</span><span class='op'>)</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='warning'>Warning: Shapiro-Wilk test for standardized residuals: p = 0.0165</span></div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_2</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"profile"</span>, cores <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='va'>n_cores</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> <span class='message'>Profiling the likelihood</span></div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.456003640 1.027703e+02 #> k_parent 0.090911032 1.071578e-01 #> k_m1 0.003892605 6.702778e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.471328495 5.611550e-01 #> sigma 2.535612399 3.985263e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed_ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_2</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.403839460 1.027931e+02 #> k_parent 0.090823790 1.072543e-01 #> k_m1 0.004012216 6.897547e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.469118713 5.595960e-01 #> sigma 2.396089689 3.854918e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed_ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_d_2</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span>, transformed <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>FALSE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 96.403839413 1.027931e+02 #> k_parent 0.090491931 1.069035e-01 #> k_m1 0.003835483 6.685819e-03 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.469113365 5.598386e-01 #> sigma 2.396089689 3.854918e+00</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed_ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/MathFun.html'>abs</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_transformed_ff</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>/</span><span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed_ff</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/MathFun.html'>abs</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>ci_quadratic_untransformed_ff</span> <span class='op'>-</span> <span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>/</span><span class='va'>ci_profile_ff</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='co'># While the confidence interval for the parent rate constant is closer to</span> <span class='co'># the profile based interval when using the internal parameter</span> <span class='co'># transformation, the interval for the metabolite rate constant is 'better</span> <span class='co'># without internal parameter transformation.</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed_ff</span> <span class='op'><</span> <span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 TRUE TRUE #> k_parent TRUE TRUE #> k_m1 FALSE FALSE #> f_parent_to_m1 TRUE FALSE #> sigma FALSE FALSE</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>rel_diffs_transformed_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 0.0005408080 0.0002217794 #> k_parent 0.0009596417 0.0009003876 #> k_m1 0.0307277370 0.0290579182 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.0046884130 0.0027782556 #> sigma 0.0550252516 0.0327066836</div><div class='input'><span class='va'>rel_diffs_untransformed_ff</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 0.0005408085 0.0002217799 #> k_parent 0.0046100096 0.0023730229 #> k_m1 0.0146746469 0.0025301011 #> f_parent_to_m1 0.0046997599 0.0023460223 #> sigma 0.0550252516 0.0327066836</div><div class='input'> <span class='co'># The profiling for the following fit does not finish in a reasonable time,</span> <span class='co'># therefore we use the quadratic approximation</span> <span class='va'>m_synth_DFOP_par</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinmod.html'>mkinmod</a></span><span class='op'>(</span>parent <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"DFOP"</span>, <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/base/c.html'>c</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"M1"</span>, <span class='st'>"M2"</span><span class='op'>)</span><span class='op'>)</span>, M1 <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, M2 <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinsub.html'>mkinsub</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='st'>"SFO"</span><span class='op'>)</span>, use_of_ff <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"max"</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='va'>DFOP_par_c</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='va'>synthetic_data_for_UBA_2014</span><span class='op'>[[</span><span class='fl'>12</span><span class='op'>]</span><span class='op'>]</span><span class='op'>$</span><span class='va'>data</span> <span class='va'>f_tc_2</span> <span class='op'><-</span> <span class='fu'><a href='mkinfit.html'>mkinfit</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>m_synth_DFOP_par</span>, <span class='va'>DFOP_par_c</span>, error_model <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"tc"</span>, error_model_algorithm <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"direct"</span>, quiet <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='cn'>TRUE</span><span class='op'>)</span> <span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_tc_2</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 94.59613833 106.19939215 #> k_M1 0.03760542 0.04490759 #> k_M2 0.00856874 0.01087675 #> f_parent_to_M1 0.02146166 0.62023888 #> f_parent_to_M2 0.01516502 0.37975343 #> k1 0.27389751 0.33388078 #> k2 0.01861456 0.02250379 #> g 0.67194349 0.73583256 #> sigma_low 0.25128383 0.83992146 #> rsd_high 0.04041100 0.07662001</div><div class='input'><span class='fu'><a href='https://rdrr.io/r/stats/confint.html'>confint</a></span><span class='op'>(</span><span class='va'>f_tc_2</span>, <span class='st'>"parent_0"</span>, method <span class='op'>=</span> <span class='st'>"quadratic"</span><span class='op'>)</span> </div><div class='output co'>#> 2.5% 97.5% #> parent_0 94.59614 106.1994</div><div class='input'><span class='co'># }</span> </div></pre> </div> <div class="col-md-3 hidden-xs hidden-sm" id="pkgdown-sidebar"> <nav id="toc" data-toggle="toc" class="sticky-top"> <h2 data-toc-skip>Contents</h2> </nav> </div> </div> <footer> <div class="copyright"> <p>Developed by Johannes Ranke.</p> </div> <div class="pkgdown"> <p>Site built with <a href="https://pkgdown.r-lib.org/">pkgdown</a> 1.6.1.</p> </div> </footer> </div> </body> </html>