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confint-methods {stats4}R Documentation

Methods for Function ‘confint’ in Package ‘stats4’

Description

Generate confidence intervals

Methods

object = "ANY"

Generic function: see confint.

object = "mle"

First generate profile and then confidence intervals from the profile.

object = "profile.mle"

Generate confidence intervals based on likelihood profile.

[Package stats4 version 2.9.0 ]