stratStVal: Generate Parameter Starting Values

In jrnold/r-strat: Statistical Strategic Models

Description

Provides several options for generating the starting values for the parameters estimated in strat.

Usage

stratStVal(n, method = 1)

Arguments

n	Integer. Number of starting values to return, i.e. number of parameters.
method	Integer. Method to use: 0 vector. Random numbers from a uniform distribution on the inteval ( 0, 0.5). Random numbers from a uniform distribution on the interval ( 0, 1). Random numbers from a standard normal distribution.

Details

The default method is to assume starting values of 0 for all parameters. The other other methods for generating starting values for parameters are taken from STRAT http://www.rochester.edu/college/psc/signorino/.

Value

Numerical vector of length n.

See Also

strat, mle, optim

Examples

nCoef <- 6

## default method - all 0's
stratStVal(nCoef)

## uniform distribution between 0 and 1
stratStVal(nCoef, method=3)

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