sdreport_outer: Report uncertainty of the estimated smoothing parameters or variances
Description
Computes standard deviations for the smoothing parameters of a model object returned by qreml
using the delta method.
Usage
sdreport_outer(mod, invert = FALSE)
Value
list containing report
matrix summarising parameters and standard deviations as well as the outer Hessian
matrix.
Arguments
- mod
model objects as returned by qreml
- invert
optional logical; if TRUE
, the inverse smoothing paramaters (variances) are returned along with the transformed standard deviations obtained via the delta method.
Details
The computations are based on the approximate gradient of the restricted log likelihood. The outer Hessian is computed by finite differencing of this gradient. If the inverse smoothing parameters are requested, the standard deviations are transformed to the variances using the delta method.