cumulant

theta

an object of class <code>"asterfam"</code> produced by one of
    the family functions (see <code><a rd-options="" href="/link/families?package=aster2&version=0.2-1" data-mini-rdoc="aster2::families">families</a></code>) specifying the
    exponential family.

the number of derivatives wanted.  Must be nonnegative
    integer less than or equal to three.

deriv

direction in which limit is taken.  Cumulant
    function is for family that is limit of family specified, limit
    being for distributions with parameter
    $theta + s delta$,
    the limit being as $s to infinity$.  May be missing,
    in which case $delta = 0$ is assumed, which is the same
    as no limit being taken.

delta


Calculate cumulant function and up to three derivatives for
families known to the package.


misc

Aster models are exponential family regression models for life
history analysis.  They are like generalized linear models except that
elements of the response vector can have different families (e. g.,
some Bernoulli, some Poisson, some zero-truncated Poisson, some normal)
and can be dependent, the dependence indicated by a graphical structure.
Discrete time survival analysis, zero-inflated Poisson regression, and
generalized linear models that are exponential family (e. g., logistic
regression and Poisson regression with log link) are special cases.
Main use is for data in which there is survival over discrete time periods
and there is additional data about what happens conditional on survival
(e. g., number of offspring).  Uses the exponential family canonical
parameterization (aster transform of usual parameterization).
Unlike the aster package, this package does dependence groups (nodes of
the graph need not be conditionally independent given their predecessor
node), including multinomial and two-parameter normal as families.  Thus
this package also generalizes mark-capture-recapture analysis.

Charles Geyer

aster2

Aster Models

cumulant function

Not intended for use by ordinary users.  Provides R interface for testing
to C code called by many other functions in the package.

cumulant: Cumulant Functions for Aster Models

Description

Usage

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Examples