nfint", a list with components</p>
<dl><dt>conf</dt>
<dd><p>The argument <code>conf</code>.</p></dd>

    <dt>cutoff</dt>
<dd><p>A numeric scalar.  For values inside the
      confidence interval the profile loglikelihood lies above
      <code>cutoff</code>.</p></dd>

    <dt>parameter_vals, prof_loglik_vals</dt>
<dd><p><code>2 * num + 1</code> by
      <code>length(which_pars)</code> numeric matrices.
      Column i of <code>parameter_vals</code> contains the profiled values of
      parameter <code>which