llDiffD {mederrRank}

Log-Likelihood Difference for the \delta_j Parameters

Description

This function computes the log-likelihood difference for the candidate \delta_j random effects. It is a helper function and not meant to be used on its own.

Usage

llDiffD(dat, deltaj, cand, thetai, gamma, tau2)

Arguments

dat

data frame containing the observed sample counts.

deltaj

vector of previous accepted values for the \delta_j random effects.

cand

vector of candidate values for the \delta_j random effects.

thetai

vector of previous accepted values for the \theta_i random effects.

gamma

last sampled value for the \gamma parameter.

tau2

last sampled value for the \tau^2 parameter.

Details

For further details see Myers et al. (2011).

Value

llDiffD returns the vector of log-likelihood differences.

Author(s)

Sergio Venturini [e-mail],

Jessica A. Myers [e-mail]

References

Myers, J. A., Venturini, S., Dominici, F. and Morlock, L. (2011), "Random Effects Models for Identifying the Most Harmful Medication Errors in a Large, Voluntary Reporting Database". Technical Report.

See Also

bhm.constr.resamp, bhm.mcmc, bhm.resample.