summary.zelig {Zelig}R Documentation

Summary of Simulated Quantities of Interest

Description

Summarizes the object of class zelig (output from sim) which contains simulated quantities of interst.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'zelig'
summary(object, subset = NULL, CI = 95, stats = c("mean", "sd"), ...)

Arguments

object

output object from sim (of class "zelig").

subset

takes one of three values:

  • NULL(default) for more than one observation, summarizes all the observations at once for each quantity of interest.

  • a numeric vectorindicates which observations to summarize, and summarizes each one independently.

  • allsummarizes all the observations independently.

stats

summary statistics to be calculated.

CI

a confidence interval to be calculated.

...

further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Value

sim

number of simulations, i.e., posterior draws.

x

values of explanatory variables used for simulation.

x1

values of explanatory variables used for simulation of first differences etc.

qi.stats

summary of quantities of interst. Use names to view the model-specific items available in qi.stats.

Author(s)

Kosuke Imai <kimai@princeton.edu>; Gary King <king@harvard.edu>; Olivia Lau <olau@fas.harvard.edu>

See Also

zelig, setx, sim, and names, and the full Zelig manual at http://gking.harvard.edu/zelig.


[Package Zelig version 3.5.3 Index]