lb_start {lb}R Documentation

Find a starting value

Description

Find a starting value

Usage

lb_start(y, x, method = c("lp", "simple", "poisson", "unconstrained"),
  delta = 1)

Arguments

y

vector of observations of length n.

x

design matrix of dimension n * p.

method

a character string giving the method used to select the starting values. The use of "simple" or "lp" is recommended.

delta

a numeric additionaly substracted from the intercept.

Value

a vector giving the starting values.


[Package lb version 1.1 Index]