parnames {bbmle}

get and set parameter names

Description

Gets and sets the "parnames" attribute on a negative log-likelihood function

Usage

parnames(obj)
parnames(obj) <- value

Arguments

obj

a negative log-likelihood function

value

a character vector of parameter names

Details

The parnames attribute is used by mle2() when the negative log-likelihood function takes a parameter vector, rather than a list of parameters; this allows users to use the same objective function for optim() and mle2()

Value

Returns the parnames attribute (a character vector of parameter names) or sets it.

Author(s)

Ben Bolker

Examples

x <- 1:5
set.seed(1001)
y <- rbinom(5,prob=x/(1+x),size=10)
mfun <- function(p) {
  a <- p[1]
  b <- p[2]
  -sum(dbinom(y,prob=a*x/(b+x),size=10,log=TRUE))
}
optim(fn=mfun,par=c(1,1))
parnames(mfun) <- c("a","b")
mle2(minuslogl=mfun,start=c(a=1,b=1),method="Nelder-Mead")