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bivrecFit/estimation [ Modules ]

NAME

    estimation --- Estimation functions

FUNCTION

Functions used directly as part of the model-fitting procedure.

The main three functions here are fupdatefrailties4, updatedisppears and updateregprof, which respectively update the frailties, dispersion parameters (by Pearson-type estimators) and the regression coefficients, as part of the Expectation-Maximization loop. Other functions here are either subroutines called by these functions or alternative estimators.

CONTENTS

    fmakealphars2 --- Fortran wrapper for fmkalpha2
    fupdatefrailties4 --- update frailty estimates
    getdispmarg3 --- workhorse function for computing marginal estimators
    smoothalpha --- smooth hazard estimates
    updatedispmarg2 --- Marginal estimators for the dispersion parameters
    updatedispohls --- Ohlsson-type dispersion parameter estimators
    updatedisppears --- Pearson dispersion parameter estimators
    updateregprof --- update regression coefficients (profile likelihood)