Hi! I am using the NLME package for R to modeling glucose-insuline response with Bergman's model, very similar to the example in the documentation for the NLME package. My question concerns the model for the residuals. I use a proportional model , Var(e_{ij})=(sigma_g*G(t))^2 for the glucose response and Var(e_{ij})=(sigma_i * I(t))^2 for the insulin response. Hence I have a varPower model, but I know that the power coefficient is 2, but with different sigma coefficients for the two responses. If I fit a model I get an estimation of the standard deviation of the residuals, which directly can be obtained from the output: The value of the residual 0.01966.. is very close to the real value 0.02 which I have used for both responses in this example. Random effects: Formula: list(Sg ~ 1, Si ~ 1, n ~ 1, gamma ~ 1, G0 ~ 1, I0 ~ 1) Level: id Structure: Diagonal Sg Si n gamma G0 I0 Residual StdDev: 0.5439934 0.5075674 0.3192111 0.3227774 0.08773017 0.1060001 0.01966552 However, there is only one value. Is that some kind of average over all samples? What if I want to extract the two different sigma coefficients for the two responses. Just as in the example I have a level "type" that specifies which response it is. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/NLME-error-model-with-several-responses-tp4501300p4501300.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.