check_optim: Check Optim Arguments

In joker: Probability Distributions and Parameter Estimation

Check Optim Arguments

Description

Checks that the arguments supplied by the user are appropriate to be passed to optim(). Used internally in parameter estimation.

Usage

check_optim(par0, method, lower, upper, choices = NULL, len = 1)

Arguments

par0	numeric or character. If numeric, it is passed to optim as the initial estimation, i.e. the par argument. If character, the corresponding estimation method is called and the result is passed to optim instead.
method, lower, upper	arguments passed to optim.
choices	character. A vector of available estimation methods for the par0 argument
len	integer. The appropriate length of the lower and upper argument, as well as par if it is numeric.

Value

par0, possibly altered via match.arg() if it is a character.

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