From btyner @ending from gm@il@com  Sun Jul 22 14:47:45 2018
From: btyner @ending from gm@il@com (Benjamin Tyner)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 08:47:45 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Should there be a confint.mlm ?
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> BTW --- and this is a diversion ---  This is nice mathematically
>      (and used in other places, also in "base R" I think)
> but in principle is a waste:  Computing a full
> k x k matrix and then throwing away all but the length-k
> diagonal ...
> In the past I had contemplated but never RFC'ed or really
> implemented a stderr() generic with default method
>
>     stderr.default <- function(object) sqrt(diag(vcov(object)))
>
> but allow non-default methods to be smarter and hence more efficient.
>
A fine idea for sure, but perhaps use a different name in order to avoid 
conflicts with:

 > base::stderr
function ()
.Internal(stderr())
<bytecode: 0x32e1e98>
<environment: namespace:base>



[Rd] Should there be a confint.mlm ?
Benjamin Tyner