convenience: Convenience functions

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Convenience functions

Description

These functions can be used to change some estimator options.

Usage

setestimator(x, estimator)

setoptimizer(x, optimizer = c("default", "nlminb", "ucminf",
                 "cpp_L-BFGS-B", "cpp_BFGS", "cpp_CG", "cpp_SANN",
                 "cpp_Nelder-Mead"), optim.args)


usecpp(x, use = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A psychonetrics model.

estimator

A string indicating the estimator to be used

optimizer

The optimizer to be used. Can be one of "nlminb" (the default R nlminb function), "ucminf" (from the optimr package), and C++ based optimizers "cpp_L-BFGS-B", "cpp_BFGS", "cpp_CG", "cpp_SANN", and "cpp_Nelder-Mead". The C++ optimizers are faster but slightly less stable. Defaults to "nlminb".

use

Logical indicating if C++ should be used (currently only used in FIML)

optim.args

List of arguments to sent to the optimizer.

Details

The default optimizer is nlminb with the following arguments:

  • eval.max=20000L

  • iter.max=10000L

  • trace=0L

  • abs.tol=sqrt(.Machine$double.eps)

  • rel.tol=sqrt(.Machine$double.eps)

  • step.min=1.0

  • step.max=1.0

  • x.tol=1.5e-8

  • xf.tol=2.2e-14

Value

An object of the class psychonetrics (psychonetrics-class)

Author(s)

Sacha Epskamp


psychonetrics documentation built on June 22, 2024, 10:29 a.m.