initMoM {fabPrediction}R Documentation

Obtain inital guess of MLE of the marginal Dirichlet-multinomial likelihood

Description

Method of moment matching to obtain an initial guess of the MLE, as in Minka (2000).

Usage

initMoM(D)

Arguments

D

matrix (JxK) of counts; each row is a sample from a MN distribution with K categories

Value

Hessian


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