pargee: demonstrate a parallelized, out-of-memory based GEE solver
In geeni: gee in bounded memory, data from disk etc.

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

demonstrate a parallelized, out-of-memory based GEE solver

1	pargee(gd, family, binit, maxit = 20, tol = 1e-06)

`gd`	instance of `gdManager-class`
`family`	GLM stats `family` instance, e.g., `gaussian`
`binit`	initial value for regression parameter vector
`maxit`	maximum number of iterations allowed
`tol`	convergence criterion – will stop when largest maximum absolute size of any component of the iteration step is smaller than `tol`

very preliminary demonstration, mildly validated on orthodontic data for gaussian case

regression parameter vector

V Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>

## to obtain multicore performance, please do
# library(doMC)
# registerDoMC([num cores])  # give number of cores you want to use
## before running this example
 if (file.exists(fd <<- system.file("mgrs/flatOrth.rda", package="geeni"))) {
  load(fd)
  pargee(flatOrth, gaussian, c(0,0,0))
  } else {
  cat("you need to run the buildff vignette to update support information in the installed image of geeni\n")
  cat("try running Sweave(system.file('doc/buildff.Rnw',package='geeni')) and\n")
  cat("if all goes well, you can then run example(pargee)\n")
  }