R help - Apr 2012 - Print std. Error separately from mle-class object

Hi,

I am using power.law.fit to get an mle-class object in tmp and print
summary(tmp), coef(tmp) and logLik(tmp). I wanted to print the std. error for
alpha separately as I want to show these values concisely in a graph legend.
coef(summary(tmp)) displays the alpha and std. error jointly, while I need to
print them separately on two lines.

Regards,
Fayez

Are you aware that the summary function normally returns a data value that you
can extract values from and format to your hearts desire?
try
str(coef(summary(tmp)))
and read ?mle-class
(and try to provide a reproducible example next time)
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"Aziz, Muhammad Fayez" <aziz4 at illinois.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using power.law.fit to get an mle-class object in tmp and print
>summary(tmp), coef(tmp) and logLik(tmp). I wanted to print the std.
>error for alpha separately as I want to show these values concisely in
>a graph legend. coef(summary(tmp)) displays the alpha and std. error
>jointly, while I need to print them separately on two lines.
>
>Regards,
>Fayez
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Thank you Jeff for your input. I did realize just after posting the question
that the summary fn returns an object whose "slots" can be read and
that the slot containing the coefficient information is a matrix. Here is how I
got the desired results through the following code in "mypanel"
function of xyplot:

	tmp <- power.law.fit(y, xmin=1) 
	coefMatrix <- slot(summary(tmp), "coef")
	print(coefMatrix["alpha", "Estimate"]) # alpha:
	print(coefMatrix["alpha", "Std. Error"]) # Std. Error
	print(slot(summary(tmp), "m2logL")) # -2 log L:

Best,
Fayez
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From: Jeff Newmiller [jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:54 PM
To: Aziz, Muhammad Fayez; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Print std. Error separately from mle-class object

Are you aware that the summary function normally returns a data value that you
can extract values from and format to your hearts desire?
try
str(coef(summary(tmp)))
and read ?mle-class
(and try to provide a reproducible example next time)
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"Aziz, Muhammad Fayez" <aziz4 at illinois.edu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using power.law.fit to get an mle-class object in tmp and print
>summary(tmp), coef(tmp) and logLik(tmp). I wanted to print the std.
>error for alpha separately as I want to show these values concisely in
>a graph legend. coef(summary(tmp)) displays the alpha and std. error
>jointly, while I need to print them separately on two lines.
>
>Regards,
>Fayez
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.