R/cov_clm__getGradientFunction__fittingGradientPML____main.R

In phmpacheco-ufjf/clm: A package to deal with complex longitudinal survey data

fittingGradientPML <- function(derivativesExprList, sigmaThetaExprList, fit) {
  function(params) {
    sigmaTheta <- evalSigmaThetaExprList(sigmaThetaExprList, as.list(params))
    derivSigmaThetaList <- evalDerivSigmaThetaExprList(derivativesExprList, sigmaThetaExprList, as.list(params))

    gradient <- sapply(derivSigmaThetaList, function(derivSigmaThetaj) {
      sum(diag(solve(sigmaTheta) %*% (sigmaTheta - fit$sigmaHat) %*% solve(sigmaTheta) %*% derivSigmaThetaj))
    })

    return(gradient)
  }
}