chisq {VGAM}R Documentation

Chi-squared Distribution

Description

Maximum likelihood estimation of the degrees of freedom for a chi-squared distribution.

Usage

chisq(link = "loge", earg = list())

Arguments

link, earg

See CommonVGAMffArguments for information.

Details

The degrees of freedom is treated as a parameter to be estimated, and as real (not integer). Being positive, a log link is used by default. Fisher scoring is used.

Value

An object of class "vglmff" (see vglmff-class). The object is used by modelling functions such as vglm, and vgam.

Note

Matrix responses are permitted. There may be convergence problems if the degrees of freedom is very large or close to zero.

Author(s)

T. W. Yee

References

Evans, M., Hastings, N. and Peacock, B. (2000) Statistical Distributions, New York: Wiley-Interscience, Third edition.

See Also

Chisquare. normal1.

Examples

cdata <- data.frame(x2 = runif(nn <- 1000))
cdata <- transform(cdata, y1 = rchisq(nn, df = exp(1 - 1 * x2)),
                          y2 = rchisq(nn, df = exp(2 - 2 * x2)))
fit <- vglm(cbind(y1, y2) ~ x2, chisq, cdata, trace = TRUE)
coef(fit, matrix = TRUE)

[Package VGAM version 0.8-4 Index]