defaultGuess: Default Guess

In senresearch/lcest: Left Censored Estimates

Description

This function, used in blcest, picks a reasonable starting guess for optim, which is the mean, sd, and corr of the data ignoring censoring.

Usage

defaultGuess(cenData)

Arguments

cenData

nx4 matrix of data, in which first two columns hold data values for x and y variables and the second two columns hold flags for censoring such that 1 implies censored and 0 implies not censored.

Value

Returns a vector of length 5, which is a guess for each xmu, ymu, xsd, ysd, correlation.

senresearch/lcest documentation built on Jan. 14, 2022, 5:29 p.m.