Le 30/01/2017 � 19:04, Fox, John a �crit : >> Hi everyone, >> >> I try to use the Default S3 method DeltaMethod() from car package, but I >> have some problems when I try to use a function as the "g" parameter. I >> don't know if it is possible anyway. I hope that you could tell me: > I don't see how that would work. From ?deltaMethod: "g [the second argument]: > A quoted string that is the function of the parameter estimates to be > evaluated; see the details below." > > A possible solution would be to write a wrapper function that prepares a > proper call to deltaMethod().
Hi John, This is exactly what I try to do: a wrapper (I forget that name in English !). I have made some progress to do a wrapper function: try_g <- function(...) { par <- list(...) return(par$t1/par$t2) } try_g(t1=1, t2=2) deltaMethod(coef(m1), "try_g(t1, t2)", vcov.=vcov(m1)) The wrapper function try_g is accepted now, but I get an error because deltaMethod() tried to do symbolic derivative: > deltaMethod(coef(m1), "try_g(t1, t2)", vcov.=vcov(m1)) Error in D(g, names(para)[i]) : La fonction 'try_g' n'est pas dans la table des d�riv�es (translation: The function 'try_g' is not in the table of derivative functions). I was hopping that numeric approximation of derivative (example numDeriv::grad() or deriv() ) could be used, but it is not the case. Thanks Marc [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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