[Rd] One for the wish list - var.default etc
Greg Snow
Greg.Snow at intermountainmail.org
Wed May 9 18:51:16 CEST 2007
The vcov function in package stats is already a generic, could you write
your methods for vcov rather than for var?
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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
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> Subject: [Rd] One for the wish list - var.default etc
>
> I was working on a permutation-like variant of the bootstrap
> for smaller samples, and wanted to be able to get summary
> stats of my estimator conveniently. mean() is OK as its a
> generic, so a mean.oddboot function gets used automatically.
> But var, sd and others are not originally written as generic;
> they have to be explicitly masked by a package or new declaration.
>
> It would have been nice if stats::var was a generic to make
> it more easily extensible... one for the wish list?
>
> Steve Ellison
>
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