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I often use simple nested random-effect models for interlaboratory data. The variance components are important things to know. Is there an R function or package that gets variance components from lm objects? Or can someone point me to a method of doing so?

I am designing an interlaboratory validation study for a presence/absence alternative method test kit vs. a presence/absence reference method test kit. There will be 10 laboratories conducting tests using both methods. In each laboratory, there will be 5 specimens tested, each of the 5 specimens twice by both methods (alternative, standard). The total number of data are 10 x 5 x 4 = 200.

[Corrected the model formula to include "method".] I am designing an interlaboratory validation study for a presence/absence alternative method test kit vs. a presence/absence reference method test kit. There will be 10 laboratories conducting tests using both methods. In each laboratory, there will be 5 specimens tested, each of the 5 specimens twice by both methods (alternative,

Greetings All, Out of curiosity, I've just done a very primitive experiment: Obj <- list(Fun=sum, Dat=c(1,2,3,4)) Obj$Fun(Obj$Dat) # [1] 10 That sort of thing (much more sophisticated) must be documented mind-blowingly somewhere. Where? Where I stand right now: The above (and its immediately obvious generalisations, like Obj$Fun<-cos) is all I know about it so far. Ted.