[R] NextMethod in boxcox

[Bert Gunter]

Have you tried:

?NextMethod

?

-- Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics
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"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge
is certainly not wisdom."
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Gene Leynes <gleynes+r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was trying to understand the boxcox function in MASS to get a better
> understanding of where and how the log-Likelihood values are calculated.
>
> By using "debug(boxcox)" I found this code while running the examples:
>
>>     m <- length(lambda)
>>     object <- lm(object, y = TRUE, qr = TRUE, ...)
>>     result <- NextMethod()
>
>
> Can someone tell me how this is optimizing the values for Lambda?  I'm
> assuming that it has something to do with the qr decomposition that happens
> in lm?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gene
>
>
>
>
> Notes and disclaimers:
>
>    - Yes, I read the help for NextMethod and boxcox.
>    - I don't think my OS / R / MASS versions are relevant but if you must
>    know I happen to be on Windows 8 right now and using R version 3.0.2
>    (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing", Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
>    (64-bit).  MASS version is 7.3-29.
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