Re: [Rd] Bug in "stats4" package - "confint" method

2019-04-24 Thread peter dalgaard
Yep, I know. Well, maybe I didn't, but there are also issues with propagation of fixedness in constrained optimization. Revising mle() had neen on my todo list for way too long. The bbmle package handles this better, I believe. -pd > On 24 Apr 2019, at 16:51 , Stefano de Pretis wrote: > > D

[Rd] Bug in "stats4" package - "confint" method

2019-04-24 Thread Stefano de Pretis
Dear R developers, I noticed a bug in the stats4 package, specifically in the confint method applied to “mle” objects. In particular, when some “fixed” parameters define the log likelihood, these parameters are stored within the mle object but they are not used by the “confint" method, which re