initial: Initialization for a nonparametric/semiparametric mixture

In nspmix: Nonparametric and Semiparametric Mixture Estimation

Initialization for a nonparametric/semiparametric mixture

Description

A generic method used to return an initialization for a nonparametric/semiparametric mixture.

Usage

initial(x, beta, mix, kmax)

Arguments

x	an object of a class for data.
beta	instrumental parameter in a semiparametric mixture.
mix	an object of class disc for the mixing distribution.
kmax	the maximum allowed number of support points used.

Value

beta	an initialized value of beta
mix	an initialised or updated object of class disc for the mixing distribution.

Author(s)

Yong Wang <[e-mail]>

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