confint.clm: Confidence intervals and profile likelihoods for parameters...
In ordinal: Regression Models for Ordinal Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Computes confidence intervals from the profiled likelihood for one or more parameters in a cumulative link model, or plots the profile likelihood.

## S3 method for class 'clm'
confint(object, parm, level = 0.95,
        type = c("profile", "Wald"), trace = FALSE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'profile.clm'
confint(object, parm = seq_len(nprofiles),
        level = 0.95, ...)

## S3 method for class 'clm'
profile(fitted, which.beta = seq_len(nbeta),
        which.zeta = seq_len(nzeta), alpha = 0.001,
        max.steps = 50, nsteps = 8, trace = FALSE, step.warn = 5,
        control = list(), ...)

## S3 method for class 'profile.clm'
plot(x, which.par = seq_len(nprofiles),
        level = c(0.95, 0.99), Log = FALSE, relative = TRUE, root =
        FALSE, fig = TRUE, approx = root, n = 1e3,
        ask = prod(par("mfcol")) < length(which.par) && dev.interactive(),
        ..., ylim = NULL)

`object, fitted, x`	a fitted `clm` object or a `profile.clm` object.
`parm, which.par, which.beta, which.zeta`	a numeric or character vector indicating which regression coefficients should be profiled. By default all coefficients are profiled. Ignored for `confint.clm` where all parameters are considered.
`level`	the confidence level. For the `plot` method a vector of levels for which horizontal lines should be drawn.
`type`	the type of confidence interval.
`trace`	if `trace` is `TRUE` or positive, information about progress is printed.
`Log`	should the profile likelihood be plotted on the log-scale?
`relative`	should the relative or the absolute likelihood be plotted?
`root`	should the (approximately linear) likelihood root statistic be plotted?
`approx`	should the Gaussian or quadratic approximation to the (log) likelihood be included?
`fig`	should the profile likelihood be plotted?
`ask`	logical; if `TRUE`, the user is asked before each plot, see `par(ask=.)`.
`n`	the no. points used in the spline interpolation of the profile likelihood.
`ylim`	overrules default y-limits on the plot of the profile likelihood.
`alpha`	The likelihood is profiled in the 100*(1-alpha)% confidence region as determined by the profile likelihood.
`control`	a list of control parameters for `clm`. Possibly use `clm.control` to set these.

`max.steps`	the maximum number of profiling steps in each direction for each parameter.
`nsteps`	the (approximate) number of steps to take in each direction of the profile for each parameter. The step length is determined accordingly assuming a quadratic approximation to the log-likelihood function. The actual number of steps will often be close to `nsteps`, but will deviate when the log-likelihood functions is irregular.
`step.warn`	a warning is issued if the number of steps in each direction (up or down) for a parameter is less than `step.warn`. If few steps are taken, the profile will be unreliable and derived confidence intervals will be inaccurate.
`...`	additional arguments to be parsed on to methods.

These confint methods call the appropriate profile method, then finds the confidence intervals by interpolation of the profile traces. If the profile object is already available, this should be used as the main argument rather than the fitted model object itself.

confint: A matrix with columns giving lower and upper confidence limits for each parameter. These will be labelled as (1-level)/2 and 1 - (1-level)/2 in % (by default 2.5% and 97.5%).

plot.profile.clm invisibly returns the profile object, i.e., a list of data.frames with an lroot component for the likelihood root statistic and a matrix par.vals with values of the parameters.

Rune Haubo B Christensen

profile and confint

## Accurate profile likelihood confidence intervals compared to the
## conventional Wald intervals:
fm1 <- clm(rating ~ temp * contact, data = wine)
confint(fm1) ## type = "profile"
confint(fm1, type = "Wald")
pr1 <- profile(fm1)
confint(pr1)

## plotting the profiles:
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1, root = TRUE) ## check for linearity
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1, approx = TRUE)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1, Log = TRUE)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1, Log = TRUE, relative = FALSE)
## Not likely to be useful but allowed for completeness:
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
plot(pr1, Log = FALSE, relative = FALSE)

## Example from polr in package MASS:
## Fit model from polr example:
if(require(MASS)) {
    fm1 <- clm(Sat ~ Infl + Type + Cont, weights = Freq,
               data = housing)
    pr1 <- profile(fm1)
    confint(pr1)
    par(mfrow=c(2,2))
    plot(pr1)
}