Computes bootstrap standard errors for document positions from a fitted Wordfish model

bootstrap.se(object, L = 50, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

object

a fitted Wordfish model

L

how many replications

verbose

Give progress updates

...

Unused

Value

Standard errors for document positions

Details

This function computes a parametric bootstrap by resampling counts from the fitted word counts, refitting the model, and storing the document positions. The standard deviations for each resampled document position are returned.

Author

Will Lowe