R help - Oct 2004 - glmmPQL and REML

Hi, 

I am trying to use glmmPQL package for Generalized linear mixed models. 
This package works by repeated calls to lme. lme uses by default REML 
method for estimation. Then, does glmmmPQL use REML too? In contrast, 
how can I change it? 
I have tried it, writing : method="REML", but the program says:
invalid
method REML.

 If somebody can answer me....thanks, 


Sonja

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 sgrabasa at escet.urjc.es wrote:
> I am trying to use glmmPQL package for Generalized linear mixed models. 
> This package works by repeated calls to lme. lme uses by default REML 
> method for estimation. Then, does glmmmPQL use REML too? In contrast, 
> how can I change it? 
> I have tried it, writing : method="REML", but the program says:
invalid
> method REML.
> 
>  If somebody can answer me....thanks, 
The docs do: it uses PQL as the name suggests, not REML and not ML.
If you don't know what that is, please read the references on the help 
page.  (The posting guide does ask you to read one of them before posting 
here.)

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