The derived information matrix is not of full rank for your data. See the code of the functions, which is not that hard to read.
Uwe Ligges MANASI VYDYANATH wrote: > You have my sincere apologies for the incompleteness of my message. > I have given the details below, including my dataset and my code. > > I'm using R, version 2.5.0. My OS is a Mac, (version Tiger). > > The sn package is Version 0.4-1 > > My code was as follows: > > > mydata <- read.table(url("http://www.statsci.org/data/oz/ > ais.txt"), header = T) > > attach(mydata) > > a <- msn.fit(X = cbind(1,Ht,Wt), y = BMI, control = list(x.tol=1e-6)) > > b <- msn.mle(X=cbind(1,Ht,Wt), y=SSF) > > a > > b > > My problem is that neither the "a" nor the "b" output gives me any > standard errors - those should appear under <$se>. In both the > regressions, this field is left blank with "NA" under it. I would > appreciate some help on this matter - are the standard errors not > supposed to appear here, or is there something else I should put into > the inputs? > > Thank you once again for your time, > > Manasi > > > > On Aug 30, 2007, at 5:47 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >> >> 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. >> >> As each R-help message tells in the footer: >> >> "PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code." >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Thank you for your time in reading this question - >>> Cordially, >>> Manasi >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.