startingValues: Computes starting values for parameter search

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/startingValues.R

Description

Internal. Computes starting values for alpha and beta parameters. Alpha parameters are estimated by a GLM fit, beta parameters by a linear model.

Usage

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startingValues(model, x, y, Tn)

Arguments

model

Contains model parameters

x

contains data

y

contains outcome (target) information

Tn

panel times dimension

Value

Returns a list of

  1. starting values for α_ν

  2. starting values for β

  3. residual variance


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