An object of the class "bw.optim"
represents the numerical
value of a smoothing bandwidth, a threshold, or a similar
tuning parameter, that has been selected by optimising
a criterion such as cross-validation.
The object is a numerical value, with some attributes that retain
information about how the value was selected.
Attributes include the vector of candidate values that were examined,
the corresponding values of the optimality criterion, the name of the
parameter, the name of the optimality criterion, and the units in
which the parameter is measured.
There are methods for print
, plot
,
summary
, as.data.frame
and as.fv
for the class "bw.optim"
.
The print
method simply prints the numerical value of the
parameter.
The summary
method prints this value, and states how
this value was selected.
The plot
method produces a plot of the optimisation criterion
against the candidate value of the parameter. The as.data.frame
and as.fv
methods extract this graphical information as a data
frame or function table, respectively.