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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:08:23 +0000
From: Robert Kirkpatrick <robert.kirkpatrick@vcuhealth.org>
To: Team OpenMx <openmx-developers@virginia.edu>
Subject: thread 4737
See here: [1]https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/node/4737 . The user's
questions have been satisfactorily addressed. However, there are still
2 things from this thread worth discussing amongst us developers.
First, the user reports getting slightly different results for
confidence intervals when changing the start values, even though
changing the start values doesn't appreciably change the MLE (i.e., the
result of the primary optmization). I don't really understand how that
can be, unless the confidence-limit searches are sensitive to precision
in point estimates beyond the 6th decimal place. Second, can't we do
something to improve user experience when summary() (with
verbose=FALSE ) reports a confidence limit as NaN? As it is, the
user then has to re-run summary() with a non-default argument, look at
the 'CI details' table, subtract the fit at the MLE from the fit at
the dubious confidence limit, maybe call pchisq(), and decide whether
the dubious confidence limit is "close enough".
One possibility is to add columns to 'CI details' that show the change
in fit, and the corresponding cumulative probability from a chi-square
distribution on 1df. Another possibility is to let the user set the
threshold for how "off" a confidence limit can be before it gets
reported as NaN in summary() output.
#78 is relevant for this issue to (in terms of the confidence limit = NaN and user work required with summary(), 'CI details' table, possible subtraction of fit at the MLE from the fit at the dubious confidence limit etc.
See around ComputeGD.cpp line 744
if (fabs(diff) > 1e-1)
. Maybe leave the bounded Wu Neale (2012) stuff as is?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: