profileCI: Profiling a Log-Likelihood to Calculate Confidence Intervals

Provides tools for profiling a user-supplied log-likelihood function to calculate confidence intervals for model parameters. Speed of computation can be improved by adjusting the step sizes in the profiling and/or starting the profiling from limits based on the approximate large sample normal distribution for the maximum likelihood estimator of a parameter. The accuracy of the limits can be set by the user. A plot method visualises the log-likelihood and confidence interval. Only convex log-likelihoods are supported, that is, disjoint confidence intervals will not be found.

Package details

AuthorPaul J. Northrop [aut, cre, cph]
MaintainerPaul J. Northrop <p.northrop@ucl.ac.uk>
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Version1.0.0
URL https://paulnorthrop.github.io/profileCI/ https://github.com/paulnorthrop/profileCI
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("profileCI")

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profileCI documentation built on June 8, 2025, 1:07 p.m.