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Hi, First, thanks to those who helped me see my gross misunderstanding of randomForest. I worked through a baging tutorial and now understand the "many tree" approach. However, it is not what I want to do! My bagged errors are accpetable but I need to use the actual tree and need a single tree application. I am using rpart for a classification tree but am interested in a more unbaised estimator of...

Dear R-users, I have longitudinal data and would like to fit a model where both the variance-covariance matrix of the random effects and the residual variance are conditional on a (binary) grouping variable. I guess the model would have the following form (in hierarchical notation) Yi|bi,k ~ N(XiB+Zibi, sigmak*Ident) bi|k ~ N(0, Dk) K~Bernoulli(p) I can obtain different sigmas (sigma0 and