Hi, all. In setting up my package for post-processing regression models, I am trying to use standard notation as much as possible: thus, I use coef() to access estimated coefficients. I wrote a function called se.coef() to grab standard errors, and se.fixef() and se.ranef() to grab se's from coefficients estimated from lmer().
I also need a function to access sigma-hat (the residual sd of the regression). I've called this function sigma.hat(), but I'm open to using a better name if there's something more standard. I also have a function called sim() that makes simulations using lm() or glm() output (based on the curvature of the likelihood function or, to put it another way, approximate Bayesian inference assuming a flat prior distribution). sim() returns a list: with two components: (1) beta, a matrix of simulated coefficients (with dimension n.sims by k), and (2) sigma, a vector of simulated sigma's (with length n.sims). I'll be doing more, but these are the basics for now. I need to be able to pull these objects out as necessary. And I just was wondering if anyone had suggested names for the functions that are more consistent with R naming conventions. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Gelman Professor, Department of Statistics Professor, Department of Political Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman Statistics department office: Social Work Bldg (Amsterdam Ave at 122 St), Room 1016 212-851-2142 Political Science department office: International Affairs Bldg (Amsterdam Ave at 118 St), Room 731 212-854-7075 Mailing address: 1255 Amsterdam Ave, Room 1016 Columbia University New York, NY 10027-5904 212-851-2142 (fax) 212-851-2164 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
