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Hi I am trying to convert SAS codes to R, but some of the result are quite different from SAS. When I ran proc mixed, I have an option ddfm=bw followed by the model. How can I show this method in R?(I am thinking that this maybe the reason that I can't get the similar results) below is my SAS codes: proc mixed data=test covtest empirical; class pair grade team school; model score = trt

Hi all. Belove is the example from the cluster-help page wtih the output. I simply cannot figure out how to relate the estimate and robust Std. Err to the p-value. I am aware this a marginal model applying the sandwich estimator using (here I guess) an emperical (unstructered/exchangeable?) ICC. Shouldent it be, at least to some extend, comparable to the robust z-test, for rx : 2*pnorm(-0.239/0.0816)=0.0034 ? Any help/hints are appreciated. Steen and R 2.2.1, survival 2.21 on win XP. library(survival) data(rats) marginal.model <- survreg(Surv(time, status) ~...