Hi all, I have a random effect model that can be written as y_{ij} = \beta +\alpha_i+ \epslion_{ij} where \alpha_i ~ N(0,\sigma^2_effect) and \espilon_{ij} ~ N(0,\sigma^2_error) and i compute res<-lme(data~1,data=Data,random=~1 | veci) The estimation of \sigma_error is given by res$sigma but I don't understand how i can find the estimation of \sigma _effect with the object res (I would like to have access to the value of the estimation and not print the result by using summary(res) or print(res) ) Could you help me ? Best regards -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Olivier MARTIN PhD student phone : (33) 04 76 61 53 55 Projet IS2 06 08 67 93 42 INRIA Rhone-Alpes fax : (33) 04 76 61 54 77 655, Av. de l'Europe Montbonnot e-mail: olivier.martin at inrialpes.fr 38334 Saint Ismier cedex web : http://www.inrialpes.fr/is2/people/omartin -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._