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I want to fit a series of lme() regression models that differ only in the degrees of freedom of a ns() spline. I want to use a wrapper function to do this. The models will be of the form y ~ ns(x, df=splineDF) where splineDF is passed as an argument to a wrapper function. This works fine if the regression function is lm(). But with lme(), I get an error. fitfunction() below demonstrates this. Why? KLUDGEfit() below provides a clumsy solution. It turns the lme() command, along with the appropriate v...

I would like to fit regression models of the form y ~ ns(x, df=splineDF) where splineDF is passed as an argument to a wrapper function. This works fine if the regression function is lm(). But with lme(), I get two different errors, depending on how I handle splineDF inside the wrapper function. A workaround is to turn the lme() command, along with the appropriate va...

I would like to fit regression models of the form y ~ ns(x, df=splineDF) where splineDF is passed as an argument to a wrapper function. This works fine if the regression function is lm(). But with lme(), I get two different errors, depending on how I handle splineDF inside the wrapper function. A workaround is to turn the lme() command, along with the appropriate va...