[R] R and MLE

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Ajay Narottam Shah wrote:

>I learned R & MLE in the last few days. It is great! I wrote up my
>explorations as
>
>  http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/mle/mle.html
>
>I will be most happy if R gurus will look at this and comment on how
>it can be improved.
>
>
>
>I have a few specific questions:
>
>* Should one use optim() or should one use stats4::mle()?
>
>  I felt that mle() wasn't adding much value compared with optim, and
>  in addition, I wasn't able to marry my likelihood functions to it.
>
>* One very nice feature of mle() is that you can specify a few
>  parameters which should be fixed in the estimation. How can one
>  persuade optim() to behave like that?
>
>  
>
give optim()  a function to optimize which do not depend on those 
parameters ...

>* Can one use deriv() and friends to get analytical derivatives of
>  these likelihood functions? I found I wasn't able to make headway
>  when I was using vector/matrix notation. I think the greatness of R
>  lies in a lovely vector/matrix notation, and it seems like a shame
>  to have to not use that when trying to do deriv().
>
>* For iid problems, the computation of the likelihood function and
>  it's gradient vector are inherently parallelisable. How would one go
>  about doing this within R?
>
>  
>
Kjetil

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