| findLnew {emplikAUC} | R Documentation | 
Finding the Lower bound of a confidence interval for theta by repeatedly testing the hypothesis for the parameter theta.
Description
This function try to find the Lower bound of a confidence interval 
by repeatedly testing the 
hypothesis for the parameter theta until we reach the 
level for the "-2LLR" which return from
the user supplied function fun. 
Usage
findLnew(step=0.01, initStep=0, fun, MLE, level=qchisq(0.95,df=1), 
           tol=.Machine$double.eps^0.5,...)
Arguments
| step | Search step. Must > 0. | 
| initStep | The initial step from MLE. May be used if we knew the bound is far away from MLE. This help to speed up things. Should be >=0. | 
| fun | The function that should return "-2LLR". | 
| MLE | The MLE of the parameter. | 
| level | The level of the confidence. Default to 3.84 which is 95 percent confidence. | 
| tol | The error bound for achieving the level given. | 
| ... | Any additional input to be passed to fun. | 
Details
This function is similar to findUnew( ). 
Value
It returns a list containing
| Low | Lower bound of the confidence interval. | 
| FstepL | The error when search for Lower bound. | 
| Lvalue | The final likelihood ratio value for Lower bound. Should =~ level. | 
Author(s)
Mai Zhou <maizhou@gmail.com>.
References
Zhao, Y., Ding, X. and Zhou (2021). Confidence Intervals of AUC and pAUC by Empirical Likelihood. Tech Report. https://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/research/eAUC1.pdf
Examples
 
y <- c(10, 209, 273, 279, 324, 391, 566, 785)
x <- c(21, 38, 39, 51, 77, 185, 240, 289, 524)