geese.control function

Auxiliary for Controlling GEE Fitting

Auxiliary function as user interface for gee' fitting. Only used when callinggeese' or `geese.fit'.

geese.control(
  epsilon = 1e-04,
  maxit = 25,
  trace = FALSE,
  scale.fix = FALSE,
  jack = FALSE,
  j1s = FALSE,
  fij = FALSE
)

Arguments

• epsilon: positive convergence tolerance epsilon; the iterations converge when the absolute value of the difference in parameter estimate is below epsilon.
• maxit: integer giving the maximal number of Fisher Scoring iteration.
• trace: logical indicating if output should be produced for each iteration.
• scale.fix: logical indicating if the scale should be fixed.
• jack: logical indicating if approximate jackknife variance estimate should be computed.
• j1s: logical indicating if 1-step jackknife variance estimate should be computed.
• fij: logical indicating if fully iterated jackknife variance estimate should be computed.

Returns

A list with the arguments as components.

Details

When trace' is true, output for each iteration is printed to the screen bythe c++ code. Hence,options(digits = *)' does not control the precision.

See Also

geese.fit', the fitting procedure used bygeese'.

Author(s)

Jun Yan jyan.stat@gmail.com