maxLik (version 1.3-4)

estfun.maxLik: Extract Gradients Evaluated at each Observation

Description

Extract the gradients of the log-likelihood function evaluated at each observation (‘Empirical Estimating Function’, see estfun).

Usage

# S3 method for maxLik
estfun( x, ... )

Arguments

x

an object of class maxLik.

…

further arguments (currently ignored).

Value

Matrix of log-likelihood gradients at the estimated parameter value evaluated at each observation. Observations in rows, parameters in columns.

Warnings

The sandwich package must be loaded before this method can be used.

This method works only if the observaton-specific gradient information was available for the estimation. This is the case of the observation-specific gradient was supplied (see the grad argument for maxLik), or the log-likelihood function returns a vector of observation-specific values.

See Also

estfun, maxLik.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## ML estimation of exponential duration model:
t <- rexp(100, 2)
loglik <- function(theta) log(theta) - theta*t

## Estimate with numeric gradient and hessian
a <- maxLik(loglik, start=1 )

# Extract the gradients evaluated at each observation
library( sandwich )
head(estfun( a ), 10)

## Estimate with analytic gradient.
## Note: it returns a vector
gradlik <- function(theta) 1/theta - t
b <- maxLik(loglik, gradlik, start=1)
head(estfun( b ), 10)
# }