estimateB {LCA} | R Documentation |
Estimates initial value of parameter Beta from the PTL distribution used in LCA analysis.
estimateB(x)
x |
Numeric vector of differences between the values of each feature, for a pair of objects in the dataset. |
Calculates maximum-likelihood estimate for Beta in the Laplace distribution fit to distribution of x
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Numeric value for initial estimate of PTL distribution parameter Beta
Ed Curry e.curry@imperial.ac.uk