Dependent on the specific type of warping functions, this function creates
a vector of initial parameters. For "nonparametric" warpings that
are based on a given spline basis matrix, the initial parameters are defined
s.t. the resulting (inverse) warping function equals a diagonal line.
For "piecewise_linear2" warpings a fixed parameter vector is returned.
initial_params(warping = "nonparametric", K, t_vec)If nonparametric (default), inverse warping functions are estimated nonparametrically.
If piecewise_linear2 they follow a piecewise linear function with 2 knots.
Spline basis matrix defined over the interval c(t_min, t_max).
Vector of the observed and potentially irregular time grid.