[R] deal with R.package panel

Pavel Khomski pkhomski at wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Jun 9 14:24:11 CEST 2006


hello!

my question conserns with use of "panel" package (written by R.C.Gentlman)
(unfortunately the manual and help sites are very short)

1. is it possible to do analysis  just without a(ny) covariate? i 
suggest do it by introducing a covariate with level=0 in all 
obervations, this because of Q(z)=Q_o exp(beta*z),  but it seemingly 
doesn't work

2. in the option gamma in the call of panel function: do you mean an 
initial value for parameter vector gamma?
say if i have 3 theta-parameters, so i have to initialize 
gamma=c(xxx,xxx,xxx), correct?

3. are the (first ) observed times =0 allowed (in $time vectors) or 
schould in such a case begin with =1, if there are any?


thanks for your response


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