mle
Ben Bolker <bolker@zoo.ufl.edu> writes:
I'm very excited by the new mle package now incorporated in stats4. If possible, I'd like to help develop it. In the past I wrote a similar package (mleprof, available from http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/R/src), and would like to see if there's anything that my package does that I could contribute (in particular, I'd like to make sure that the code is as robust as possible in constructing profiles and finding confidence limits); I also have opinions about some of the defaults, and I can certainly help test it ... I don't know who the primary developer is beyond "R-core" ... if whoever's working on it would like to take me up on the offer, can you let me know?
Well, I wrote the core bits, but stealing heavily from the glm and nls profilers (by Bill Venables and Doug Bates, I believe) and Brian Ripley did quite a bit of stabilizing of the code between the 1.8.x and 1.9.0 releases. I'll be bogged down for at least another month, but I might be able to get back to this some time in June.
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