MANASI VYDYANATH wrote:> Dear R users:
> I have a question regarding the output for two of the functions in
> the `sn' package, which deals with the mle fitting of skew normal
> curves to linear regressions. I'm using the examples and the dataset
> given as an example in the online documentation for this package, for
> the functions `msn.fit' and `msn.mle'. I'm following the
example code
> in the documentation for these two functions exactly.
> Part of the data output is supposed to be "se", which gives the
> standard errors of the estimated coefficients. This particular value
> comes out as being "NA" in the examples given, but there are
three
> coefficients in each case and no numerical problems about why the
> standard errors cannot be calculated.
> Am I setting this program up right? Is there some other command I
> should use (or an option I need to use) to get the output to display
> standard errors of the coefficients?
We cannot know if you use it right, since you have not given any details on
OS, R version, sn version, and particularly a reproducible example.
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Uwe Ligges
> Thank you for your time in reading this question -
> Cordially,
> Manasi
>
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