Hi everyone, I'm trying to fit a of piecewise regression model on a time series. The idea is to divide the series into segments and then to apply linear regression models on each segment but in a "global way" and considering heteroskedasticity between the segments. For example, I build a time series y with 3 segments: segment1=1:20+rnorm(20,0,2) segment2=20-2*1:30+rnorm(30,0,5) segment3=-40+0.5*1:15+rnorm(15,0,1) group=c(rep(1,20),rep(2,30),rep(3,15)) y=c(segment1,segment2,segment3) Data=data.frame(y,t=1:65,group=as.factor(group)) the model I'd like to fit is: y_t(beta_01+beta_11*t+error_1)*(group==1)+(beta_02+beta_12*t+error_2)*(group==2)+(beta_03+beta_13*t+error_3)*(group==3) It looks like a mixed effects model were the fixed effect are the piecewise linear regression parts (beta_0i+beta_1i*t) and the random effects are the variance components error_i. The problem is that I can't find the way the write this model correctly using the lme() function of the package nlme. I can't remove the global intercept and the global variance component. Here's what I tried: #1 Using a prior piecewise linear regression lm.list=lmList(y~t|group,Data) model.lme=lme(lm.list,weights=varIdent(form=~1|group)) #2 Trying to estimate the whole model directly and considering the different lines as random effects model.lme=lme(y~1,random=~t|group,data=Data) but the intercept remains... I read a lot of R-help messages before posting this one (my first!) and I'm not getting any closer. It looks like no one tried to estimate the exact same model. I'll be very grateful if someone could help me on this. Thanks Goulven -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Piecewise-regression-using-lme-tp2297118p2297118.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.