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nObs

Return number of observations for statistical models


Description

Returns number of observations for statistical models. The default method assumes presence of a component param$nObs in x.

Usage

nObs(x, ...)
## Default S3 method:
nObs(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'lm'
nObs(x, ...)

Arguments

x

a statistical model, such as created by lm

...

further arguments for methods

Details

This is a generic function. The default method returns the component x$param$nObs. The lm-method is based on qr-decomposition, in the same way as the does summary.lm.

Value

numeric, number of observations

Author(s)

Ott Toomet, otoomet@econ.au.dk

See Also

Examples

# Construct a simple OLS regression:
x1 <- runif(100)
x2 <- runif(100)
y <- 3 + 4*x1 + 5*x2 + rnorm(100)
m <- lm(y~x1+x2)  # estimate it
nObs(m)

miscTools

Miscellaneous Tools and Utilities

v0.6-26
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Arne Henningsen, Ott Toomet
Initial release
2019-12-08

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