control.rds.estimates: Auxiliary for Controlling RDS.bootstrap.intervals

In RDS: Respondent-Driven Sampling

Auxiliary for Controlling RDS.bootstrap.intervals

Description

Auxiliary function as user interface for fine-tuning RDS.bootstrap.intervals algorithm, which computes interval estimates for via bootstrapping.

Usage

control.rds.estimates(
  confidence.level = 0.95,
  SS.infinity = 0.01,
  discrete.cutoff = 0.8,
  useC = TRUE,
  number.of.bootstrap.samples = NULL,
  hcg.reltol = sqrt(.Machine$double.eps),
  hcg.BS.reltol = 1e+05 * sqrt(.Machine$double.eps),
  hcg.max.optim = 500,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

confidence.level	The confidence level for the confidence intervals. The default is 0.95 for 95%.
SS.infinity	The sample proportion, n/N, below which the computation of the SS weights should simplify to that of the RDS-II weights.
discrete.cutoff	The minimum proportion of the values of the outcome variable that need to be unique before the variable is judged to be continuous.
useC	Use a C-level implementation of Gile's bootstrap (rather than the R level). The implementations should be computational equivalent (except for speed).
number.of.bootstrap.samples	The number of bootstrap samples to take in estimating the uncertainty of the estimator. If NULL it defaults to the number necessary to compute the standard error to accuracy 0.001.
hcg.reltol	Relative convergence tolerance for the HCG estimator. The algorithm stops if it is unable to reduce the log-likelihood by a factor of reltol * (abs(log-likelihood) + reltol) at a step. Defaults to sqrt(.Machine$double.eps), typically about 1e-8.
hcg.BS.reltol	Relative convergence tolerance for the bootstrap of the HCG estimator. It has the same interpretation as hcg.reltol except it is applied to each bootstrap sample. It is typically the same or larger than hcg.reltol.
hcg.max.optim	The number of iterations on the likelihood optimization for the HCG estimator.
seed	Seed value (integer) for the random number generator. See set.seed

Details

This function is only used within a call to the RDS.bootstrap.intervals function.

Some of the arguments are not yet fully implemented. It will evolve slower to incorporate more arguments as the package develops.

Value

A list with arguments as components.

See Also

RDS.bootstrap.intervals, RDS.bootstrap.mechanics

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