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apollo_readBeta

Reads parameters from file

Description

Reads in parameters from a previously estimated model and copies the values to the given apollo_beta vector, only for those parameters whose name matches.

Usage

apollo_readBeta(
  apollo_beta,
  apollo_fixed,
  inputModelName,
  overwriteFixed = FALSE
)

Arguments

`apollo_beta`	Named numeric vector. Names and values for parameters.
`apollo_fixed`	Character vector. Names (as defined in `apollo_beta`) of parameters whose value should not change during estimation.
`inputModelName`	Character. modelName for model from which results are used as starting values.
`overwriteFixed`	Boolean. TRUE if starting values for fixed parameters should also be updated from input file.

Details

This function will update the values of the parameters in its argument apollo_beta with the matching values in the file (inputModelName)_estimates.csv. If there is no match for a given parameter in apollo_beta, its value will not be updated.

Value

Named numeric vector. Names and updated starting values for parameters.

apollo

Tools for Choice Model Estimation and Application

v0.2.4

GPL-2

Authors

Stephane Hess [aut], David Palma [aut, cre]

Initial release