vcov.copCAR {copCAR} R Documentation

## Return the estimated covariance matrix for a copCAR model object.

### Description

Return the estimated covariance matrix for a copCAR model object.

### Usage

## S3 method for class 'copCAR'
vcov(object, ...)


### Arguments

 object a fitted copCAR model object. ... additional arguments.

### Details

Unless copCAR was called with confint = "none", this function returns an estimate of the covariance matrix of the CE/CML/DT estimator of the parameters. If confint = "bootstrap", cov is applied to the bootstrap sample to compute the estimate. If confint = "asymptotic", an estimate of the asymptotic covariance matrix is returned; this is an estimate of the inverse Fisher information matrix if method = "CE", or an estimate of the inverse of the Godambe information matrix if method = "CML" or method = "DT". Note that the entries involving the spatial dependence parameter are for \gamma=\Phi^{-1}(\rho) rather than for \rho (Hughes, 2015).

### Value

An estimate of the covariance matrix of the CE/CML/DT estimator of the parameters.

### References

Hughes, J. (2015) copCAR: A flexible regression model for areal data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 24(3), 733–755.

[Package copCAR version 2.0-4 Index]