maxLik: A package for maximum likelihood estimation in R

被引:422
作者
Henningsen, Arne [1 ]
Toomet, Ott [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Copenhagen, Inst Food & Resource Econ, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
[2] Univ Aarhus, Aarhus Sch Business, Dept Econ, DK-8230 Abyhoj, Denmark
[3] Univ Tartu, Dept Econ, EE-51009 Tartu, Estonia
关键词
Maximum likelihood; Optimization; FUNCTION MINIMIZATION; ALGORITHMS; MODELS;
D O I
10.1007/s00180-010-0217-1
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
This paper describes the package maxLik for the statistical environment R. The package is essentially a unified wrapper interface to various optimization routines, offering easy access to likelihood-specific features like standard errors or information matrix equality (BHHH method). More advanced features of the optimization algorithms, such as forcing the value of a particular parameter to be fixed, are also supported.
引用
收藏
页码:443 / 458
页数:16
相关论文
共 22 条
[1]  
[Anonymous], 1990, 153 AT T BELL LAB
[2]  
ARDIA D, 2010, DEOPTIM GLOBAL OPTIM
[3]   CONVERGENCE THEOREMS FOR A CLASS OF SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS ON R(D) [J].
BELISLE, CJP .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY, 1992, 29 (04) :885-895
[4]  
BERNDT EK, 1974, ANN ECON SOC MEAS, V3, P653
[5]  
Bolker B.M., 2009, bbmle: Tools for general maximum likelihood estimation
[6]  
Broyden C.G., 1970, IMA J APPL MATH, V6, P76, DOI [10.1093/imamat/6.1.76, DOI 10.1093/IMAMAT/6.1.76]
[7]   ALTERNATIVE COVARIANCE ESTIMATORS OF THE STANDARD TOBIT-MODEL [J].
CALZOLARI, G ;
FIORENTINI, G .
ECONOMICS LETTERS, 1993, 42 (01) :5-13
[8]  
CARLEVARO F, 2010, MHURDLE ESTIMATION M
[9]  
Croissant Y, 2010, PGLM PANEL GEN LINEA
[10]  
Croissant Y., 2009, TRUNCREG TRUNCATED R