mvnmle (version 0.1-11.1)

missvals: A multivariate data set with missing values.

Description

The missvals data frame has 13 rows and 5 columns. These are data from Draper and Smith (1968), and are included to demonstrate ML estimation of mean and variance-covariance parameters of multivaraite normal data when some observations are missing.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

x1,x2,x3,x4,x5

numeric vectors

Details

These data constitute Table 6.4 in Little and Rubin (1987). They are analyzed both in Rubin (1976) and Little and Rubin (1987).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(mvnmle)
data(missvals)

mlest(missvals, iterlim=400)
# }