Created as a convenient helper function for optimization. Not intended for users.
Arguments
- theta
Numeric vector. Parameters associated with
X
andX_star
- W
Numeric vector of counts
- M
Numeric vector of sequencing depth
- X
Matrix of covariates associated with abundance (including intercept)
- X_star
Matrix of covariates associated with dispersion (including intercept)
- np
Number of covariates associated with abundance (including intercept)
- npstar
Number of covariates associated with dispersion (including intercept)
- link
ink function for abundance covariates
- phi.link
ink function for dispersion covariates
- logpar
Boolean. Defaults to
TRUE
. Indicator of whether to return log-likelihood.